What does Hebrews mean?

Definitions for Hebrews
ˈhi bruzhe·brews

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Hebrews, Israelitesnoun

    the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)

  2. Epistle to the Hebrews, Hebrewsnoun

    a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him

Wiktionary

  1. Hebrewsnoun

    The nineteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of St Paul to the Hebrews.

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  1. hebrews

    Hebrews generally refers to people who traced their lineage back to the biblical patriarch Abraham through his son Isaac and Isaac's son Jacob. In religious context it's often used to refer to the ancient Israelites, the Jewish People, their descendants, and their language. The term is also used in the title of a book in the Christian New Testament, the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Wikidata

  1. Hebrews

    Hebrews is an ethnonym used in the Tanakh. It is mostly taken as synonymous with the Semitic Israelites, especially in the pre-monarchic period when they were still nomadic, but in some instances it may also be used in a wider sense, referring to the Phoenicians, or to other ancient groups, such as the group known as Shasu of Yhw on the eve of the Bronze Age collapse. By the Roman era, Greek Hebraios could refer to the Jews in general, as Strong's Hebrew Dictionary puts it "any of the Jewish Nation" and at other times more specifically to the Jews living in Judea. In Early Christianity, the Greek term Εβραία Εβραίες Εβραί refers to Christianizing Jews, as opposed to the gentile Christians and Christian Judaizers. Ιουδαία is the province where the Temple was located. In Armenian, Italian, Kurdish, Old French and a few other languages the transfer of the name from Hebrew to Jew never took place, and 'Hebrew' is the primary used word for a Jew.

Editors Contribution

  1. Hebrews

    A term appearing 34 times within 32 verses of the Hebrew Bible. While the term was not an ethnonym,it is mostly taken as synonymous with the Semitic-speaking Israelites, especially in the pre-monarchic period when they were still nomadic.


    Submitted by anonymous on June 5, 2018  

Etymology and Origins

  1. Hebrews

    Said to be descendants of Eber, the great-grandson of Shem, one of the ancestors of Abraham. The greater probability, however, is that the term has been derived from the native ebher, the region on the other side--i.e. of the Euphrates.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Hebrews in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Hebrews in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of Hebrews in a Sentence

  1. Monday Cannon:

    It's never hate speech. You can't be anti-Semitic when we are the Semitic people, when we are the same people who they want to be. That's our birthright. We are the true Hebrews.

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