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question about jews and hebrews - 11/14/2009 6:36:41 PM
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turtleman
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I am taking a bible class and my teacher wants us to know what various terms and customs mean and the significance of them. When did the decendants of Abraham and Issac begin to be called Jews or hebrews and what do these names mean? Afterall when Jesus walked the Earth words and names had much more meaning than they do today.
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RE: question about jews and hebrews - 11/14/2009 9:20:07 PM
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LCannon
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'Jew' is a contraction of 'Judah', the fourth son of Jacob, where Jacob's birthright lay. Some authors believe Hebrew/Ibri denotes the descendants of the biblical patriarch Eber (Hebrew), a great grandson of Noah and an ancestor of Abraham, though the term has not been found in biblical or extra-biblical sources for any tribe or nation other than Abraham and his descendants. Note however that Abraham is once referred to as "Abram the Hebrew" (Genesis 14:13). Probably it's origins are lost to antiquity as a surety.
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RE: question about jews and hebrews - 11/14/2009 9:21:40 PM
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LCannon
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'Jew' is a contraction of 'Judah', the fourth son of Jacob, where Jacob's birthright lay. Some authors believe Hebrew/Ibri denotes the descendants of the biblical patriarch Eber (Hebrew), a great grandson of Noah and an ancestor of Abraham, though the term has not been found in biblical or extra-biblical sources for any tribe or nation other than Abraham and his descendants. Note however that Abraham is once referred to as "Abram the Hebrew" (Genesis 14:13). Probably it's origins are lost to antiquity as a surety.
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''Let the very worst thing come to pass[and]even there,
especially there; His hand will hold.' -Elisabeth Elliot-
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RE: question about jews and hebrews - 11/15/2009 9:47:13 AM
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GrahamCracker
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In our English Bible, the use of the term "Jew" seems to have begun around the time of the Babylonian exile. What it was translated from, I don't know.
"The English word Jew continues Middle English Gyw, Iewe, a loan from Old French giu, earlier juieu, ultimately from Latin Iudaeum. The Latin Iudaeus simply means Judaean, "from the land of Judaea". The Latin term itself, like the corresponding Greek Ἰουδαῖος, is a loan from Aramaic Y'hūdāi, corresponding to Hebrew: יְהוּדִי, Yehudi (sg.); יְהוּדִים, Yehudim (pl.), in origin the term for a member of the tribe of Judah or the people of the kingdom of Judah. The Hebrew word for Jew, יְהוּדִי, is pronounced [jəhuˈdiː], with the stress on the final syllable.[10]
The Ladino name is ג׳ודיו, Djudio (sg.); ג׳ודיוס, Djudios (pl.); Yiddish: יִיד: Yid (sg.); יִידן, Yidn (pl.).
The etymological equivalent is in use in other languages, e.g., "Jude" in German, "juif" in French, "jøde" in Danish, "judío" in Spanish, etc., but derivations of the word "Hebrew" are also in use to describe a Jewish person, e.g., in Italian (Ebreo), and Russian: Еврей, (Yevrey).[11] The German word "Jude" is pronounced [ˈjuːdə], and is the origin of the word Yiddish.[12] (See Jewish ethnonyms for a full overview.)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jew
< Message edited by GrahamCracker -- 11/15/2009 9:57:57 AM >
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