1. Hebrews - Noun
2. Hebrews - Proper noun
a New Testament book traditionally included among the epistle of Saint Paul but now generally considered not to have been written by him
the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)
Source: WordNetIt was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be. Eric Hoffer
I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed in blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. John Adams
Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages. Isaac Mayer Wise
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable. James Fenimore Cooper
The Hebrews took for their idol, not something made of metal or wood, but a race, a nation, something just as earthly. Their religion is essentially inseparable from such idolatry, because of the notion of the "chosen people." Simone Weil
Indeed, Mr. Jefferson, what could be invented to debase the ancient Christianism which Greeks, Romans, Hebrews and Christian factions, above all the Catholics, have not fraudulently imposed upon the public? Miracles after miracles have rolled down in torrents. John Adams