Ἑβραῖος

The 4 distinct written forms G1445 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.

Form	Parsing	Example	Uses
Ἑβραίους Hebraíous	Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine	Acts 6:1	1
Ἑβραίων Hebraíōn	Adjective, Genitive, Plural, Masculine	Philippians 3:5	1
Ἑβραῖοί Hebraîoí	Adjective, Nominative, Plural, Masculine	2 Corinthians 11:22	1
Ἑβραῖος Hebraîos	Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine	Philippians 3:5	1

Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G1445, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.

Derives from

• Εβερ Ebér G1443 Shelah

Proper names from this root

People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.

• Εβραικος Hebraïkós G1444 Hebrew
• Εβραΐς Hebraḯs G1446 Hebrew language

Compare all same-root words → 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.

Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Hebrew). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.

Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897

A name applied to the Israelites in Scripture only by one who is a foreigner (Gen. 39:14, 17; 41:12, etc.), or by the Israelites when they speak of themselves to foreigners (40:15; Ex. 1:19), or when spoken of an contrasted with other peoples (Gen. 43:32; Ex. 1:3, 7, 15; Deut. 15:12). In the New Testament there is the same contrast between Hebrews and foreigners (Acts 6:1; Phil. 3:5).

Derivation. (1.) The name is derived, according to some, from Eber (Gen. 10:24), the ancestor of Abraham. The Hebrews are "sons of Eber" (10:21).

(2.) Others trace the name of a Hebrew root-word signifying "to pass over," and hence regard it as meaning "the man who passed over," viz., the Euphrates; or to the Hebrew word meaning "the region" or "country beyond," viz., the land of Chaldea. This latter view is preferred. It is the more probable origin of the designation given to Abraham coming among the Canaanites as a man from beyond the Euphrates (Gen. 14:13).

(3.) A third derivation of the word has been suggested, viz., that it is from the Hebrew word 'abhar, "to pass over," whence 'ebher, in the sense of a "sojourner" or "passer through" as distinct from a "settler" in the land, and thus applies to the condition of Abraham (Heb. 11:13).

Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863

This word first occurs as given to Abram by the Canaanites, (Genesis 4:13) because he had crossed the Euphrates. The name is also derived from Eber, "beyond, on the other side," Abraham and his posterity being called Hebrews in order to express a distinction between the races east and west of the Euphrates. It may also be derived from Heber, one of the ancestors of Abraham. (Genesis 10:24) The term Israelite was used by the Jews of themselves among themselves; the term Hebrew was the name by which they were known to foreigners. The latter was accepted by the Jews in their external relations; and after the general substitution of the word Jew, it still found a place in that marked and special feature of national contradistinction, the language.

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The same Greek word Εβραιος appears 28 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 27 verses in 6 books.

28

LXX occurrences

Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.

27

verses

Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.

6 / 39

OT books

The word appears in 6 of the 39 Old Testament books.

Sample Septuagint occurrences

• Genesis 39:14 εβραῖος
• Exodus 1:15 εβραῖος
• Numbers 24:24 εβραῖος
• Deuteronomy 15:12 εβραῖος
• 1 Samuel 4:6 εβραῖος
• Jeremiah 41:9 εβραῖος

Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)

Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G1445) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.

• Genesis 39:14 εβραῖος that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
• Genesis 39:17 εβραῖος She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
• Genesis 40:15 εβραῖος For indeed, I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon."
• Genesis 41:12 εβραῖος There was with us there a young man, a Hebrew, servant to the captain of the guard, and we told him, and he interpreted to us our dreams. To each man according to his dream he interpreted.
• Genesis 43:32 εβραῖος They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians, that ate with him, by themselves, because the Egyptians don't eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.
• Exodus 1:15 εβραῖος The king of Egypt spoke to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah,
• Exodus 1:22 εβραῖος Pharaoh charged all his people, saying, "You shall cast every son who is born into the river, and every daughter you shall save alive."
• Exodus 2:6 εβραῖος She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
• Exodus 2:7 εβραῖος Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"
• Exodus 2:11 εβραῖος It happened in those days, when Moses had grown up, that he went out to his brothers, and looked at their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.
• Exodus 2:13 εβραῖος He went out the second day, and, behold, two men of the Hebrews were fighting with each other. He said to him who did the wrong, "Why do you strike your fellow?"
• Exodus 3:18 εβραῖος They will listen to your voice, and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh, our God.'
• Exodus 5:3 εβραῖος They said, "The God of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh, our God, lest he fall on us with pestilence, or with the sword."
• Exodus 7:16 εβραῖος You shall tell him, 'Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness:" and, behold, until now you haven't listened.
• Exodus 9:1 εβραῖος Then Yahweh said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
• Exodus 9:13 εβραῖος Yahweh said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and tell him, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
• Exodus 10:3 εβραῖος Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and said to him, "This is what Yahweh, the God of the Hebrews, says: 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
• Exodus 21:2 εβραῖος If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.
• Numbers 24:24 εβραῖος But ships [shall come] from the coast of Kittim, They shall afflict Asshur, and shall afflict Eber; He also shall come to destruction.
• Deuteronomy 15:12 εβραῖος If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold to you, and serve you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.
• 1 Samuel 4:6 εβραῖος When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come into the camp.
• 1 Samuel 4:9 εβραῖος Be strong, and behave yourselves like men, O you Philistines, that you not be servants to the Hebrews, as they have been to you: quit yourselves like men, and fight.
• 1 Samuel 13:19 εβραῖος Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
• 1 Samuel 14:11 εβραῖος Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
• 1 Samuel 17:8 εβραῖος He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
• Jeremiah 41:9 εβραῖος Now the pit in which Ishmael cast all the dead bodies of the men whom he had killed, by the side of Gedaliah (the same was who which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha king of Israel), Ishmael the son of Nethaniah filled it with those who were killed.
• Jeremiah 41:14 εβραῖος So all the people who Ishmael had carried away captive from Mizpah turned about and came back, and went to Johanan the son of Kareah.

These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G1445) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.