Hebrew

Hebrew is invoked here to explain that Javan is the Hebrew word for Greece — showing how ancient Israel named foreign peoples in their own linguistic framework.

Hebrew is relevant here as the linguistic root of Solomon's name, which David uses to explain God's intentionality — the name itself encodes the calling, connecting Solomon's identity to the concept of shalom.

Hebrew is the ethnic label the Philistine commanders use when flagging David's presence — their suspicion rooted in tribal identity becomes the very thing that sets David free.

Hebrew is the language Sennacherib's messengers deliberately chose to deliver their demoralizing speech, ensuring the common people on the walls could understand every word of the psychological assault.

The Hebrew text is cited here to make the point that David's dancing was not restrained or ceremonial — the original language conveys full-bodied, exhausting, uninhibited physical expression.

Paul deliberately speaks Hebrew to the crowd, and the language itself arrests their fury — signaling he is culturally and linguistically one of them, not the apostate traitor they assumed.

Hebrew-speaking Jewish believers are contrasted here with Hellenist widows to show the cultural fault line causing the distribution inequity — the complaint isn't theological, it's ethnic and linguistic.

Hebrew is noted here to explain why Saul still goes by his Jewish name at this point — signaling his pre-conversion identity as a fully observant, culturally rooted Israelite.

Hebrew is referenced here to explain the wordplay at the heart of the vision — the Hebrew words for 'summer fruit' and 'the end' sound nearly identical, so the pun would have landed as a gut-punch to the original audience.

Hebrew names are the specific target of Babylon's renaming program — each name carried theological meaning about God's character, and replacing them was a deliberate act of spiritual erasure.

Hebrew is referenced here in the scholarly sense — the original Hebrew phrasing of this law is disputed, with some scholars arguing it indicates monetary compensation rather than literal amputation, consistent with similar ancient Near Eastern legal texts.

Hebrew identifies the cultural and ethnic identity of the people Moses is addressing — the Shema is their foundational creed, still recited twice daily by observant Jewish people worldwide.

The Hebrew language is invoked here to explain the original word *hevel* — vapor or breath — the precise term the Preacher chose to capture the fleeting, ungraspable nature of all human striving.

Hebrew is the ethnic designation Pharaoh uses when targeting the midwives and the newborn boys — it marks the Israelites as a distinct people group in Egypt whose identity and survival are now under direct threat.

Hebrew is used here in its ethnic and linguistic sense to identify the nurse Miriam suggested — a detail that signals cultural continuity and the preservation of Moses' Israelite identity within Pharaoh's own household.

Hebrew is cited here as the source language in which the word manna originates — the name literally preserving the people's first confused reaction, 'What is it?'