hebraica veritas

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The traditional Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Jewish Bible, viewed as its original, correct, and authoritative text.
  2. Saint Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation of the Jewish Bible, viewed as a faithful and authoritative rendering of the original Hebrew and Aramaic.

Word forms

hebraica veritas

Etymology

Composed of the Latin hebraica (“Hebrew”, feminine nominative singular of adjective hebraicus) + vēritās (“truth”).

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