Lost Tribes of Israel

Cultural  

1. Ten tribes that were relocated to Assyria after the conquest of Israel in 722 b.c. Although their ultimate fate is unknown, the tribes have been identified with various peoples of Arabia and other areas of the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Japan, and England.

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Early Christian theologians in New England often referred to the native peoples they encountered as the Lost Tribes.

Example Sentences

But the most widely accepted candidates were the Lost Tribes of Israel.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

On that occasion an object which presented stronger attractions than this wonderful bridge had drawn me to K'ai-fung-fu—a colony of Jews, a fragment of the Lost Tribes of Israel.

From The Awakening of China by Martin, W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons)

"Phalanxes of Atlans" offered a good theory as to the whereabouts of the descendants of the Atlanteans and the Lost Tribes of Israel.

From Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various

Take notice of a few statements of the prophets responding to those times—the times that will ensue after the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel and the Jews are again possessed of, and settled in, Palestine. 

From The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 by Wild, Joseph

The question is of the Lost Tribes of Israel.

From The Son of Clemenceau by Dumas fils, Alexandre