Definition of "Hebraism"

Hebraism

noun
countable and uncountable, plural Hebraisms
1. A characteristic trait of the Hebrew language. By extension it is sometimes applied to the Jewish people or their faith, national ideology, or culture.
  Quotations
  The Scripture Greek is observed to be full of Syriasms and Hebraisms.
  1762, William Warburton, The Doctrine of Grace
  Who, in reading this magnificent Hebraism, in his conception, sees aught but the heroic son of Nun, with the outstretched arm, and the greater and lesser light obsequious?
  1833, Elia [pseudonym; Charles Lamb], “Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Productions of Modern Art”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], page 177
2. (rhetoric) Excessive use of expressions derived from Hebrew.