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Hebrews

American  
[hee-brooz] / ˈhi bruz /

noun

(used with a singular verb)
  1. a book of the New Testament. Heb.


Hebrews British  
/ ˈhiːbruːz /

noun

  1. (functioning as singular) a book of the New Testament

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Hebrews Cultural  
  1. The descendants of Abraham and Isaac, especially the descendants of Isaac's son Jacob; the Israelites.


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I thought of Hebrews 13:2: “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Yet the Hebrew Bible shows that Hebrews were as terrified of existential uprootedness as Blaise Pascal or any Christian king.

From Salon • Mar. 31, 2024

Months have dragged on without a decision from the Israeli authorities, leaving the undocumented Black Hebrews suspended between their homes in the Holy Land and what they see as exile.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023

The Black Hebrews, as the spiritual community’s members are commonly known, first made their way to Israel from the United States in the 1960s.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 20, 2023

Like the Greeks, the Hebrews used letters from their alphabet to represent numbers, so every word had a numerical value.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife

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