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| 'Heyeberi' (also pronounced 'hebri' or 'habiru') refers to the "Hebrews" - the main character group of the Hebrew texts. They are also sometimes called "Israelites", "children of [[Iseral]]", the [[ihodim]], and a few other terms as noted below. A more modern term "Jew" is roughly approximate, having evolved from the ancient term [[ihodit]](aka yehudit). | 'Heyeberi' (also pronounced 'hebri' or 'habiru') refers to the "Hebrews" - the main character group of the Hebrew texts. |
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| For the sake of consistently, we should really list this word under [[yeberi]], ignoring the 'he' prefix as we usually do (for good reason). | For the sake of consistently, we should really list this word under [[yeberi]], ignoring the 'he' prefix as we usually do (for the usual good reasons discussed at [[affixes]]). This page has been included with the preffix in order to highlight the etymological evolution through yebiri --> heyeberi --> Hebrew |
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| Dropping the prefix makes it more clear that the 'yeberi' take their name from [[yeber]] (aka Eber), a character from Genesis who was Abraham's great-great-great-great-grandfather. | Dropping the prefix makes it more clear that the 'yeberi' take their name from [[yeber]] (aka Eber), a character from Genesis who was Abraham's great-great-great-great-grandfather. |
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| 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")) Despite this popular academic view the term occurs around 70 times, certainly not a rare occurrence. | Please see [[yeberi]] for further information. |
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| Other scholars are quick to point out the occurrence of the word in non-Hebraic ancient texts such as the ancient Egyptian "Amarna Letters" and many other text written in Akkadian or Ugaritic. These scholars generally interpret the term as a social slur roughly indicating "dirty bandits", based on some fairly weak etymology that might simply reveal the underlying longevity of antisemitism. | |
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| Let's do a quick comparison of each word: | |
| *[[yeberim]]/[[yeberi]]: the descendants of [[Yeber]] (used 17 times) | |
| *heyeberi/heyeberim: an etymological step between 'yeberi" and "Hebrew" (used 39 times) | |
| *[[ihodim]]: "the People of [[Ihoh]]" (used 65 times) | |
| *[[ihodi]]: "the People of Ihoh" or "the man of Ihoh", an abbreviated form of ihodim. (used 18 times) | |
| *[[ihodeh]]: "the nation of the people of Ihoh", ie. "Judah" (used 891 times) | |
| *[[ihod]]/[[ihodia]]: "Judea" - Aramaic spellings (used 7 and 10 times respectively) | |
| *[[ihodit]]: "a member of the nation of Judah" - a Judah-ite, or the language spoken by those people (used 6 times) | |
| *[[iseralit]]: "an Israelite" | |
| *[[iserali]]: "an Israeli" | |
| *[[iseral]]: "Israel" (used 2582 times) | |
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| LexID 95674, 5674, 5680 | |
