Ἑβραῖος

Ἑβραῖος (WH, Ἐβ-), -α, -ον (Aram, עִבְרַי), as subst., ὁ Ἑ.,

[in LXX for עֵבֶר, עִבְרִי ;]

a Hebrew.

1. In OT, of Israelites in contrast with those of another race (1 Mos 14,13, 2 Mos 1,15, 5 Mos 15,12, al.).

2. In NT as the correlative of Ἑλληνιστής, a Jew who had adopted, in greater or less degree, Greek culture and Greek language. The distinction was not merely linguistic (DB, ii, 325); as far as it was so, Συριστής would be a more correct Greek term for the Jew of Semitic speech (see: Ἑβραΐς, and cf. Dalman, Words, 7): ApG 6,1, 2 Kor 11,22, Fil 3,5.

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