Eber@Gen.10.21-Luk עֵבֶר (Eber, H5677) People from Eber@Gen.10.21-Luk
The Hebrews were an ethnic group descended from Abraham, also known as Israelites or Jews.
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The Hebrews were an ethnic group descended from Abraham, also known as Israelites or Jews. The term "Hebrew" first appears in the Bible in reference to Abraham (Gen.14.13) and is later used to refer to his descendants, the Israelites, throughout the Old Testament. The Hebrews were distinct from the Egyptians (Gen.43.32; Exo.1.15,16,19) and other nations, and they were often oppressed or enslaved (Exo.1.11-14; 5.3). God identified Himself as the God of the Hebrews (Exo.3.18; 5.3; 7.16; 9.1,13; 10.3) and gave them laws and commandments to follow (Exo.21.2; Deu.15.12). The Hebrews were also known for their language, Hebrew (Luk.23.38; Act.6.1), and their religious practices. In the New Testament, the term "Hebrew" is used to refer to Jewish Christians who spoke Hebrew or Aramaic (Act.6.1) and to emphasize the Jewish heritage of some early Christians (2Co.11.22; Php.3.5).
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(Acts 6:1) were the Hebrew-speaking Jews, as distinguished from those who spoke Greek. (See GREEKS.)
descendants of Heber
HE'BREWS. The term is probably derived from the Hebrew verb eber, which means "to pass over," to cross a stream, or from the proper noun Eber, one of the ancestors of Abraham (otherwise unknown). Gen 10:24; Gen 11:13. (Compare our words transalpine, cisalpine, ultramontane, transjordanic.) It was first applied by the Canaanites to Abraham, Gen 14:13, who had immigrated from the east side of the Euphrates (and hence might be called a trans-Euphratian, a stranger come from the other side of the Euphrates), and then to all the descendants of Abraham. The Egyptians, Gen 39:14; Gen 41:12, and the Philistines, 1 Sam 4:6, knew the people by this title, and, as we may infer, all foreigners. But they sometimes use it of themselves, but only when foreigners are thought of. Gen 40:15; Ex 2:7. The favorite name was "Israelites," and after the Captivity the title "Jews" came into vogue, but the title "Hebrews" was still used for the more strict Jews, who preferred the Hebrew language, in distinction from the Hellenists or Greekish Jews. Their Origin. — Abram was chosen by God in Ur of the Chaldees to be the father of this people, and made recipient of the promise to be the founder of a great nation. Gen 12:1. The Hebrew people were descended directly from him through Isaac and Jacob, and are frequently called the "seed of Abraham," Ps 105:6; John 8:37, or "children of Abraham," Gal 3:7, or "children of Israel," Ex 1:13. Their Government. — (1.) For the first three generations it was a patriarchal form. Jacob and his sons then followed Joseph into Egypt, where for 400 years the Hebrews were subject to the Pharaohs, and, after the first generation, in a state of bondage, which became excessively oppressive, Ex 1:11-14. God finally raised up a deliverer to them in the person of Moses…
HE'BREWS, EPISTLE TO THE, was written about the years 62 to 64 in Italy, Heb 13:24, and addressed to the believing Jews of Palestine and the East. The design of the author was not, primarily, to make new converts or to console old ones, but to guard them against apostasy and to strengthen their faith by an exhibition of the evidence in favor of the pre-eminence of the religion of Christ over that of Moses, One gets the impression of peculiar temptations to apostasy or a weakening in the faith against which the Hebrew Christians are continually warned in the Epistle, ch. Ruth 2:1; Song of Solomon 4:1, Song 4:14; Ezr 10:23. The Epistle at once exhibits the unity and the characteristic difference of the Old and the New Testament economy and revelation. Both were alike of divine origin, Heb 1:1-2, but the former was imperfect and defective, chs. Heb 8:6-7; Dan 10:1. This is proved by an extended consideration of the character of Christ, the Mediator of the new covenant, and of the mediators (Moses and Aaron) of the old covenant, and by a consideration of the prophecy of Jeremiah concerning a new covenant, ch. Neh 10:16, and its spiritual character, chs. Heb 9-10. In the comparison thus instituted we discover a marked contrast between the old and new covenants, so far as both their nature and their founders are concerned. The Epistle exhibits the person of Christ, the Author of the new covenant, as superior in dignity to the angels, ch. Heb 1, and proves it by the O.T. itself. Christ was the very brightness of God's glory and the express image of his person, ch. John 1:3. Therefore the conclusion is drawn that the revelation made by him is of greater authority than that made by angels, which was accepted, ch. Gen 2:2. He is then represented as of superior dignity to Moses…
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37 verses in 11 books · English text: BSB (change it from the menu at the top) · Strong’s H5680
Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.”
Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.
They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.
Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,
“When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.”
The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
Then his sister said to Pharaohʼs daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.
The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”
The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’
“The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”
Then say to him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to tell you: Let My people go, so that they may worship Me in the wilderness. But until now you have not listened.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Get up early in the morning, stand before Pharaoh, and tell him that this is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.
If you buy a Hebrew servant, he is to serve you for six years. But in the seventh year, he shall go free without paying anything.
If a fellow Hebrew, a man or a woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you must set him free.
On hearing the noise of the shout, the Philistines asked, “What is this loud shouting in the camp of the Hebrews?” And when they realized that the ark of the LORD had entered the camp,
Take courage and be men, O Philistines! Otherwise, you will serve the Hebrews just as they served you. Now be men and fight!”
Then Jonathan attacked the Philistine outpost at Geba, and the Philistines heard about it. So Saul blew the ramʼs horn throughout the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear!”
Some Hebrews even crossed the Jordan into the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul, however, remained at Gilgal, and all his troops were quaking in fear.
And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
So the two of them showed themselves to the outpost of the Philistines, who exclaimed, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes in which they were hiding!”
And the Hebrews who had previously gone up into the surrounding camps to join Philistines now went over to the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”
that each man should free his Hebrew slaves, both male and female, and no one should hold his fellow Jew in bondage.
Every seventh year, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who has sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must let him go free. But your fathers did not listen or incline their ear.
“I am a Hebrew,” replied Jonah. “I worship the LORD, the God of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”
Above Him was posted an inscription: THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
In those days when the disciples were increasing in number, the Grecian Jews among them began to grumble against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I.
circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin; a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;
Grace be with all of you.
Names, family links and references: STEPBible TIPNR (Tyndale House Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). Short descriptions were drafted with AI assistance by STEPBible. Family links follow STEPBible’s scholarly decisions where genealogies are ambiguous.