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• Hebrews (Acts 6)

  The Hebrews are a group mentioned in Acts 6:1: Jewish believers in the early Jerusalem church who were distinguished from the Hellenistic Jews. They are generally understood to have come mainly from Palestine and to have spoken Aramaic or Hebrew.

• Hebrew Language

  Hebrew is the language of the ancient Israelites, in which most of the Old Testament was written. The New Testament refers to it as "the Hebrew tongue."

• Hebrew Servant

  In Old Testament law, a Hebrew servant was an Israelite who had been sold into the service of a fellow Israelite because of debt or poverty. The law required that, after six years of service, such a servant go free in the seventh year without payment.

• Hebrides Revival

  The Hebrides Revival was a religious revival that took place from 1949 to about 1952 on the islands of Lewis and Harris in the Hebrides, off the northwest coast of Scotland. It is said to have begun in prayer meetings, and it became widely known through the meetings of the evangelist Duncan Campbell.

• Hebrews 12:1–2

  A passage that likens the Christian life to a race and urges believers, remembering the witnesses of faith, to lay aside every weight and sin and to run with patience, "looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith." It is frequently cited in discussions of perseverance amid suffering.

• Hebrews 4

  Hebrews 4 uses the disobedience of the wilderness generation as a warning and urges readers to strive to enter God's rest. It also presents the living word of God and Jesus, the great High Priest who understands our weaknesses.

• Hebrews 8

  Hebrews 8 presents Jesus as the high priest who ministers in the heavenly sanctuary and as the mediator of a better covenant, and it quotes the new covenant prophecy to declare that the first covenant has been made old.

• Hebrews 3

  Hebrews 3 presents Jesus as the Son over God's house, greater than Moses. Quoting Psalm 95, it exhorts readers not to harden their hearts, lest, like the wilderness generation, they fail through unbelief to enter God's rest.

• Hebrews 12

  Hebrews 12 builds on the witnesses of faith in chapter 11 and exhorts readers to run the race with patience, looking unto Jesus. It addresses the meaning of the Lord's chastening, the warning example of Esau, the contrast between Mount Sinai and Mount Zion, and the kingdom that cannot be moved.

• Hebrews 7

  Hebrews 7 describes Melchizedek, king of Salem and priest, and teaches that the priesthood of Jesus after the order of Melchizedek is superior to the Levitical priesthood and is eternal.

• Hebrews 1

  The first chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. It declares that God has spoken in the last days by his Son and weaves together quotations from the Psalms and other Old Testament passages to show that the Son is superior to the angels.

• Hebrews 5

  Hebrews 5 sets out the qualifications of a high priest and states that Christ, called by God, became a high priest after the order of Melchizedek. It then rebukes the readers for their spiritual immaturity.

• Hebrews 9

  Hebrews 9 compares the tabernacle sacrifices of the first covenant with the sacrifice of Christ. The chapter teaches that Christ entered the heavenly sanctuary once for all by his own blood, obtained eternal redemption, and became the mediator of the new covenant.

• Hebrews 13

  The final chapter of Hebrews, containing practical exhortations on brotherly love, hospitality, marriage, and money; an appeal to go forth to Christ "without the camp"; a benediction; and closing greetings.

• Hebrews 2

  Hebrews 2 opens with a warning not to neglect so great a salvation. It then explains that Jesus, made for a little while lower than the angels, took on flesh and blood and suffered, thereby becoming the Savior of his brethren and a merciful and faithful high priest.

• Hebrews 6

  Hebrews 6 urges readers not to remain with elementary teachings but to press on to maturity, and it warns about those who were once enlightened and then fell away. It then grounds the certainty of hope in the oath God swore to Abraham.

• Hebrews 10

  Hebrews 10 concludes that Christ, by offering his body once for all, brought the repeated sacrifices of the Old Testament to an end. It then urges readers to draw near to God in faith and to keep meeting together, sternly warns against apostasy, and calls for perseverance.

• Paleo-Hebrew Script

  The Paleo-Hebrew script is the consonantal alphabet that the people of Israel and Judah used to write Hebrew before the Babylonian exile. It predates the square script now used in the Hebrew Bible and is also called the Old Hebrew script.

• Gospel of the Hebrews

  The Gospel of the Hebrews is a gospel said to have been read among Christians of Jewish origin around the second century. No copy survives. It is a New Testament apocryphal work known only from a few passages quoted by the Church Fathers.

• Faith Chapter

  "Faith Chapter" is a common name for Hebrews 11. After defining faith, the chapter recounts in turn what Old Testament figures, from Abel to the prophets, did "by faith."