Meanings of semitic peoples in anglès

In time, Sumerian civilization came to be dominated by the Semitic peoples.

After all, the Palestinians and other Arabs are also Semitic peoples.

We instinctively associate Semitic peoples with the Near East.

Various sacred trees were known to the Semitic peoples, such as the fig-tree (cp.

A well-marked subordinate group is formed by the so-called Semitic peoples, such as the Arabs and their Hebrew relatives.

Some Semitic peoples appear to have migrated northward to Babylonia and Syria, while others crossed the Red Sea to Abyssinia.

The Hebrews, alone among the Semitic peoples of antiquity, were to develop the worship of their god, Jehovah, into a lasting monotheism.

The payment was made, not by the bridegroom, as among the Israelites and other Semitic peoples, but by the father of the bride.

Milman, though a clergyman, treated the history of the chosen people in the light of modern knowledge of Oriental and especially of Semitic peoples.

Most of these people in time will intermarry,-Germansand Latins, Celts and Slavs, and with these the Semitic peoples, in varying proportions and combinations.

The strongholds of the lesser Semitic peoples have almost all succumbed, and Syria is a well-picked bone snatched by one foreign dog from another.