group · also Hebrew
Hebrews
עִבְרִיἙβραῖος
The Hebrews were an ethnic group descended from Abraham, also known as Israelites or Jews.
- verses
- 37
- first named
- Genesis 14:13
- last named
- Philippians 3:5
Description
Hebrews in the text
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).
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
The places the claims about this group reach, drawn where the gazetteer locates them. A point is where a row puts them and never where tradition does; no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.
The pattern
Where Hebrews is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
37 verses across 11 of 66 books; 55 write the name nowhere. Named in Genesis (6), Exodus (14), Deuteronomy (1), 1 Samuel (8), Jeremiah (2), Jonah (1), Luke (1), Acts (1), 2 Corinthians (1), Philippians (1) and Hebrews (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 37, across 11 books. The name is written 39 times in them.
Genesis6 verses
Exodus14 verses
Deuteronomy1 verse
1 Samuel8 verses
Jeremiah2 verses
Jonah1 verse
Luke1 verse
Acts1 verse
2 Corinthians1 verse
Philippians1 verse
Hebrews1 verse
Onward
Where this page goes
Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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