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/ˈhibɹuz/
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NOUN
- a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him
- 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)
How To Use Hebrews In A Sentence
- And she called the undefiled daughters of the Hebrews, and they led (attended her). Word from the Desert
- Hebrews expressly taught that Christ was peccable, in that He was tempted "in all points" as are the rest of mankind. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
- The acacia, which, in Scripture, is always called 'shittah' and in the plural 'shittim,' was esteemed a sacred wood among the Hebrews. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
- These points, he thinks, were among the Hebrews indicated by the word _selah_. Notes and Queries, Number 236, May 6, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
- The shekel was the common standard of weight and value among the Hebrews down to the time of the Easton's Bible Dictionary
- Among all the nation, the Old Testament concentrated on one — the Hebrews belonging to the Semitic tribe.
- The Exodus of the Hebrews was a collective experience, still commemorated by the Jewish Passover festival.
- The idea was probably derived from Egypt which supplied the Hebrews with androgynic humanity, and thence it passed to extreme India, where Shiva as The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Thus, from the Assyrian researches as well as from other sources, it has come to be acknowledged by the most eminent scholars at the leading seats of Christian learning that the accounts of creation with which for nearly two thousand years all scientific discoveries have had to be "reconciled" -- the accounts which blocked the way of Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and Laplace -- were simply transcribed or evolved from a mass of myths and legends largely derived by the Hebrews from their ancient relations with Chaldea, rewrought in a monotheistic sense, imperfectly welded together, and then thrown into poetic forms in the sacred books which we have inherited. A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom
- It was written by the apostle St. James, called the Less, who was also called the brother of our Lord, being his kinsman (for cousins german with the Hebrews were called brothers).
