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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Hebrews
noun
1: 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) [syn: {Israelites}]
2: a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him [syn: {Epistle to the Hebrews}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Hebrews (Acts 6:1) were the Hebrew-speaking Jews, as distinguished from those who spoke Greek. (See {GREEKS}.)
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Hebrews, descendants of Heber
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