Strong's Concordance
Hebraios: a Hebrew or Jew
Original Word: Ἑβραῖος, ου, ὁPart of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: Hebraios
Phonetic Spelling: (heb-rah'-yos)
Short Definition: a Hebrew
Definition: a Hebrew, particularly one who speaks Hebrew (Aramaic).
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1445: ἙβραῖοςἙβραῖος (
WH Ἐβραῖος, see their Introductory § 408),
ἑβραιου,
ὁ,
a Hebrew (
עִבְרִי a name first given to Abraham,
Genesis 14:13, afterward transferred to his posterity descended from Isaac and Jacob; by it in the O. T. the Israelites are both distinguished from and designated by foreigners, as afterward by
Pausanias,
Plutarch, others. The name is now generally derived from
עֵבֶר for
הַנָּהָר עֵבֶר, i. e.
of the region beyond the Euphrates, whence
עִבְרִי equivalent to
one who comes from the region beyond the Euphrates;
Genesis 14:13 the
Sept. ὁ περάτης. Cf. Gesenius, Gesch. d. hebr. Sprache u. Schrift, p. 11f; Thesaurus, ii., p. 987; Knobel, Volkertafel der Genesis, p. 176ff; Bleek, Einl. in d. A. T. edition 1, p. 73f. (English translation, i. 76f); (
B. D. under the word
