Hebrews,

3 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Hebrews
       n 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