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Definition of Hebrews

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

Definition of Hebrews

1. Noun. (plural of Hebrew) ¹

2. Proper noun. (biblical) The nineteenth book of the New Testament of the Bible, the epistle of w:Saint Paul St Paul to the Hebrews. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebrews

Hebraizes Hebraizing Hebrean Hebreish Hebrew Hebrew Aramaic Scriptures Hebrew Scripture Hebrew Scriptures Hebrew alphabet Hebrew calendar

Hebrew lesson Hebrew script Hebrewdom Hebrewess Hebrewesses Hebrews Hebrician Hebricians Hebridean Hebridean Islands

Hebridean Isles Hebrideans Hebrides Hebridian Hebridians Hebron Hebræan Hebræans Hecate Hecate Strait

Literary usage of Hebrews

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"THE hebrews were lacking in feeling for the sensuous and artistic side of life, but they exalted its spiritual side to a wonderful height. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"St. Cyprian, whose Scriptural Canon certainly reflects the content of the first Latin Bible, received all the books of the NT except hebrews, II Peter, ..."

3. Ancient Times, a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of by James Henry Breasted (1916)
"When, therefore, the hebrews originally took possession of the land, there was little prospect that they would ever long enjoy freedom from foreign ..."

4. The Heroes and Crises of Early Hebrew History from the Creation to the Death by Charles Foster Kent (1908)
"The Caphtorim are the people of Caphtor, regarded by the hebrews as the homeland of the ... The "sons "of Canaan are the peoples whom the hebrews found in ..."

5. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1825)
"I. AFTER the thirteen Epistles avowedly written by Saint Paul, with his name prefixed to them, succeeds what we call the Epistle to the hebrews; the nature ..."

6. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"These are termed by St Paul hebrews of the hebrews (Phil. iii. 5.), as opposed to the Hellenistic Jews, or those who lived among the Greeks, whose language ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Some ABRAHAM or ABRAM, the progenitor of the hebrews and the Arab Bedouin. After deriving his genealogy through Shem to his father Terah and his brothers ..."

8. History of the Planting and Training of the Christian Church by the Apostles by August Neander (1851)
"THE DOCTRINE OF THE EPISTLE TO THE hebrews. WE wish in this place to take some notice of the peculiar doctrinal character of the Epistle to the hebrews, ..."

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