ivri · Hebrew

What it means

ivri (עִבְרִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Hebrew”.

A descendant of Eber; the name that other peoples gave to Abram and to the Israelites.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What other peoples called Abram and the Israelites.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• Hebrew ×17
• Hebrews ×17

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Exodus×14
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×8
• Jeremiah×3
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 14:13

  One who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, who was living by the oaks of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol and brother of Aner; and they had a covenant with Abram.

• Genesis 39:14

  she called to the men of her household and spoke to them, saying, “See, he has brought us a Hebrew man to mock us. He came to me to lie with me, and I cried out with a loud voice.

• Genesis 39:17

  Then she spoke to him according to these words, saying, “The Hebrew slave, whom you brought to us, came to me to mock me.

• Genesis 40:15

  For I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews, and here too I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.”

• Genesis 41:12

  A young man was there with us, a Hebrew, a slave of the chief of the guard. We told him, and he interpreted for us our dreams; to each according to his dream he interpreted.

• Genesis 43:32

  They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

• Exodus 1:15

  The king of Egypt said to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the second Puah:

• Exodus 1:16

  He said, “When you help the Hebrew women give birth and see them on the birthstool, if it is a son, kill him; but if it is a daughter, she shall live.”

• Exodus 1:19

  The midwives said to Pharaoh, “Because the Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women; for they are vigorous, and before the midwife comes to them they have given birth.”

• Exodus 2:6

  She opened it and saw him, the child, and look, a boy crying! She had pity on him and said, “This is one of the children of the Hebrews.”

• Exodus 2:7

  His sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, “Shall I go and call for you a nursing woman from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

• Exodus 2:11

  In those days, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his brothers and saw their burdens. He saw an Egyptian striking a Hebrew, one of his brothers.

• Exodus 2:13

  He went out the next day, and look, two Hebrew men were fighting. And he said to the wicked one, “Why are you striking your companion?”

• Exodus 3:18

  They will listen to your voice; and you shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt and say to him, ‘YHWH, the Elohim of the Hebrews, has met with us. And now, please let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness, that we may sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim.’

• Exodus 5:3

  They said, “The Elohim of the Hebrews has met with us. Please let us go a journey of three days into the wilderness and sacrifice to YHWH our Elohim, or he will fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword.”

• Exodus 7:16

  And you shall say to him, ‘YHWH, the Elohim of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, “Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness.” But look, you have not listened until now.

• Exodus 9:1

  YHWH said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and speak to him, ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of the Hebrews: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• Exodus 9:13

  YHWH said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and station yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of the Hebrews: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• Exodus 10:3

  So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of the Hebrews: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• Exodus 21:2

  When you buy a Hebrew slave, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh he shall go out free, without payment.

• Deuteronomy 15:12

  If your brother, a Hebrew man or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you and serves you six years, then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

• 1 Samuel 4:6

  And the Philistines heard the sound of the shout and said, “What is the sound of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews?” And they learned that the ark of YHWH had come into the camp.

• 1 Samuel 4:9

  Be strong and be men, Philistines, so that you do not serve the Hebrews as they have served you; be men and fight!”

• 1 Samuel 13:3

  Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was at Geba, and the Philistines heard of it. And Saul blew the horn throughout all the land, saying, “Let the Hebrews hear.”

• 1 Samuel 13:7

  And some Hebrews crossed the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead. Saul was still at Gilgal, and all the people trembled after him.

• 1 Samuel 13:19

  No smith was found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had said, “Otherwise the Hebrews will make sword or spear.”

• 1 Samuel 14:11

  The two of them showed themselves to the post of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves.”

• 1 Samuel 14:21

  And the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines as before, who had gone up with them into the camp all around, they too turned to be with Israel who were with Saul and Jonathan.

• 1 Samuel 29:3

  The commanders of the Philistines said, “What are these Hebrews?” Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, “Is this not David, the servant of Saul king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or these years? I have found nothing in him from the day he deserted to me until this day.”

• Jeremiah 34:9

  that each should let his slave and each his slave woman, the Hebrew man and the Hebrew woman, go free, so that no one should keep them as slaves, a Jew, his brother.

• Jeremiah 34:14

  At the end of seven years you shall let go, each one, his brother the Hebrew, who has been sold to you and has served you six years; and you shall let him go free from you. But your fathers did not listen to me, nor incline their ear.

• Jonah 1:9

  And he said to them, “I am a Hebrew, and I fear YHWH, the Elohim of the heavens, who made the sea and the dry land.”

And 2 more times.