HEBREWS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hebrews mean? 

• HEBREWS (noun)
  The noun HEBREWS has 2 senses:

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)

2. a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him

  Familiarity information: HEBREWS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEBREWS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Hebrews; Israelites

Hypernyms ("Hebrews" is a kind of...):

ethnic group; ethnos (people of the same race or nationality who share a distinctive culture)

chosen people (any people believing themselves to be chosen by God)

Domain category:

Old Testament (the collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Epistle to the Hebrews; Hebrews

Instance hypernyms:

Epistle (a book of the New Testament written in the form of a letter from an Apostle)

Holonyms ("Hebrews" is a part of...):

New Testament (the collection of books of the Gospels, Acts of the Apostles, the Pauline and other epistles, and Revelation; composed soon after Christ's death; the second half of the Christian Bible)