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-=====habri=====
-העברי
-'Habri' (also pronounced 'hebri' or 'habiru') refers to the main character group in the Bible, "the Hebrews", also sometimes called Israelites, children of Israel, and a few other names. Nowadays the term Jews would be a rough approximation. See also [[jehudit]]
+  *For the **Hebrew people**, see [[hyberi]]
+  *For articles or references to the **Hebrew language**, use the backlinks feature.
-For some strange reason, the academic and "mainstream" community tends to downplay the use of the word within the ancient Hebrew texts themselves, making statements such as "It does not appear very often in the Bible", or "to interpret the term as referring to the Hebrews ...[is] unlikely"((Jonathan Orr-Stav, author of "Aleph Through the Looking Glass"))
-A common view is that the word "Hebrew", refers to a descendant of Eber who was Abraham's (Eberim) great-great-great-great-grandfather, and who is implicated in Genesis 10:21 in a possible equating of Eber and [[Shem]]. Specifically, the verse seems to refer to Shem as "the father of all the children of Eber."
-The Habiru is a reference in ancient Egyptian documents to nomadic vagrants or itinerant bandits that plagued settlements everywhere from Egypt to Mesopotamia.
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-LexID 95674, 5674, 5680