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HEBREWS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him
Synonyms:
Epistle to the Hebrews; Hebrews
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
Sense 2
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)
Synonyms:
Hebrews; Israelites
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)
