Definitions for Shammai

Shammai Sham·mai

Spelling: [shah-mahy]
IPA: /ˈʃɑ maɪ/

Shammai is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in Shammai (aahimms).

Definitions for Shammai

noun

  1. flourished 1st century b.c, Hebrew rabbi: founder of Beth Shammai, school of hermeneutics.

Examples for Shammai

Shammai was a pessimist saying "It were better not to have been born."

In the neighbourhood there is a cave in which are the sepulchres of Hillel and Shammai.

But Shammai was not of a gloomy or misanthropical disposition; indeed, he encouraged friendliness in demeanor towards every one.

"Be patient like Hillel, not passionate like Shammai," ran the saying.

The Pharisees were no friends of his, especially those who were the disciples of Shammai.

In the school of Shammai, the Pharisaic principles were carried to the very extreme.

Swarthmore Hillel may need to take a new name (I suggest the obvious “Shammai”).

Hillel and Shammai did not live to see the catastrophe which made Juda a province of Rome.

It was a question of interpretation of the authority recognised alike by Hillel and Shammai.

He was disinherited by his father in favor of Shammai, probably from displeasure at his having joined the school of Hillel.

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