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Hebrews

Who is on this listScripture calls the person a Hebrew or places the person in the Hebrew people by stated descent.

People whom Scripture identifies as Hebrews, not the cast of the Epistle to the Hebrews.

Scripture first calls Abram a Hebrew in Genesis 14:13. The name continues in Egyptian speech about Joseph and the midwives, in Philistine speech about Israel, in Jonah’s self-identification, and in Paul’s description of his ancestry.

Everyone in this list

Oil-painting style portrait of Abraham

Abraham

Patriarch who is the father of the nation of Israel and an exemplar of faith

Oil-painting style portrait of Jonah, Prophet who was swallowed by a great fish after fleeing God's command to preach to Nineveh

Jonah

Prophet who was swallowed by a great fish after fleeing God's command to preach to Nineveh

Oil-painting style portrait of Joseph, Son of Jacob

Joseph, Son of Jacob

Patriarch who was sold into slavery and rose to become the second most powerful man in Egypt

Oil-painting style portrait of Moses

Moses

Prophet who led the Israelites out of Egypt and received the Ten Commandments

Oil-painting style portrait of Paul

Paul

Apostle to the Gentiles who wrote much of the New Testament

Oil-painting style portrait of Puah, the Hebrew Midwife, Midwife who defied Pharaoh's order to kill Hebrew infants

Puah, the Hebrew Midwife

Midwife who defied Pharaoh's order to kill Hebrew infants

Oil-painting style portrait of Shiphrah, Midwife who defied Pharaoh's order to kill Hebrew male infants

Shiphrah

Midwife who defied Pharaoh's order to kill Hebrew male infants

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