Strong's Hebrew · H5680

H5680 ʻIbrîy

עִבְרִי

ib-ree'

Hebrew

ʻIbrîy appears 34 times in Scripture, including Genesis 14:13 and Exodus 1:15. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

an Eberite (i.e. Hebrew) or descendant of Eber

In the King James Version

Hebrew(-ess, woman).

Derivation

patronymic from H5677 (עֵבֵר);

Appears 34 times in Scripture

Genesis 40:15

“For I was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews, and even here I have done nothing for which they should have put me in this dungeon.””

Exodus 1:19

“The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.””

Genesis 39:17

“Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,”

Exodus 1:16

““When you help the Hebrew women give birth, observe them on the birthstools. If the child is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, let her live.””

Genesis 43:32

“They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.”

Exodus 10:3

“So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people go, so that they may worship Me.”

Exodus 1:15

“Then the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, whose names were Shiphrah and Puah,”

Genesis 41:12

“Now a young Hebrew was there with us, a servant of the captain of the guard. We told him our dreams and he interpreted them for us individually.”

Genesis 14:13

“Then an escapee came and reported this to Abram the Hebrew. Now Abram was living near the Oaks of Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner, all of whom were bound by treaty to Abram.”

Genesis 39:14

“she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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