"Cameron, I did not know you knew Hebrew."
When she asked him how he knew Hebrew, he told her he was an Israeli.
The charge that he does not know Hebrew is somewhat blunted by his mastery of Yiddish.
Many of the men and children read English, but no one knows Hebrew.
She struggles with a small Russian vocabulary and knows just enough Hebrew, she said, to read tombstones.
Mr. Dabadseh said, explaining that he knew Hebrew from his work.
So he began an unsuccessful search for a Yiddish dictionary for people, including many of his students, who did not know Hebrew.
He knew Greek (in which language he wrote), Latin, and Hebrew.
It works even if you don't know Hebrew.
Speaking Arabic and yet talking about knowing only Hebrew.