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Eden
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Why were the Jacob-Israelites called Hebrews?
Noah's son Shem was the father of the Eber, or Hebrews.
Genesis 10
21 To Shem also, the father of the children of Eber , …. children were born.
22 The children of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram.
24 And to Arphaxad was born Salah; and to Salah was born Eber
25 And to Eber were born two sons: the name of one son was Peleg; and in his days was the earth divided. And the name of Eber's second son was Joktan.
31 These are the sons of Shem, according to their families, and according to their tongues, in their lands, according to their nations.
32 These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations; and by these were nations divided in the earth after the flood.
The Jacob-Israelites came from Shem-Eber-Peleg.
But Shem-Eber-Peleg had a full brother, Shem-Eber-Joktan, who went south into Arabia and took possesion of southcentral Arabia and south Arabia, which became the strong and wealthy kingdom of Shem-Eber-Joktan, or of the Eber-Joktanites, who took possession of southcentral and south Arabia.
For intance, one of the sons of Shem-Eber-Joktan was Hazar-maveth:
Genesis 10
26 And to Joktan were born Almodad, Sheleph, and Hazar-maveth ….
Even in 2005 of our own time, an atlas of the coastland of south Arabia is still callled Hazar-maveth.
The Shemite Eber-Joktan kingdom of southcentral and south Arabia was wealthy and strong, and may even have forced the Hamite Kushites out of south Arabia and forced the Hamite Kushites across the narrow Red Sea into southeast Kush Nubia and into northcentral and east Sudan.
But the full brother of Shem-Eber-Joktan was Shem-Eber-Peleg, from whom came the Shem-Eber-Peleg-Jacob-Israelites.
I have seen and heard it taught that the Shem-Eber-Peleg Jacob-Israelites were called Hebrews because the Hebrews came from the other (or north) side of the Euphrates river valley.
But while I think it is true that the Hebrews did also come from the other or north side of the Euphrates river valley, I think that there was a more important reason why the Eber-Peleg-Jacob-Israelites were called Hebrews, and that is because the Jacob-Israelites were descended from Eber.
The word Eber is English, but in Hebrew it is Ibriy or Hebrew in English.
Jacob's son Joseph said in Egypt that Joseph was stolen out of the land of the Hebrews:
Genesis 40
15 {Joseph said} For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews….
Now brothers and sisters, Joseph was captured by his brothers and sold as a slave at Dothan which was in north Canaan, in what later became north Samaria, while Joseph's father Jacob was still sojourning in the land of Canaan and dwelling with his large camp in the valley of Hebron, in the very same Hebron valley which we know today.
Question: If being a Hebrew meant being from the other or north side of the Euphrates river, then how can Joseph say that he was stolen from the land of the Hebrews when Joseph was stolen from Dothan in the land of Canaan?
For that reason, I am more inclined to think that the Jacob-Israelites are called Hebrews simply because they are descended from Shem-Eber-Peleg. They are from Eber or Ibriy and are H-ebr-ews.
In English the name Eber , but in Hebrew the name is Ibriy from which English gets Hebrews.
The Hebrew language did not use vowels, so we need to look at the consonants of the Hebrew words, and so we see the consonants br in the name Eber and in the name Ibriy and in the name Hebrew.
The Jacob-Israelites were called Hebrews because they were descended from Eber, and so Hebrews or descendants from Eber could also be found at Dothan in the land of Canaan, like Joseph.
That is, the Jacob-Israelites were called Hebrews because they were descended from Shem-Eber-Peleg.
And if that is true, then the tribe of Shem-Eber-Joktan were also Hebrews because they were full brother to Peleg and both were the sons of Eber.
In that regard, it is very interesting that the religion of Islam came out of Arabia around 640?? of our time, out of the country which originally belonged to Shem-Eber-Joktan, the other Hebrews.
And how interesting it is that these Arabians who probably were descendants of Shem-Eber-Joktan created Islam and that Islam borrowed almost the same cast of characters from the Old Testament of his full brother Eber-Peleg Jacob-Israel's tribe around 630 of our time, and called Islam's book the Qu'ran, almost as if to compete as a Hebrew that the Shem-Hebrew tribe of Joktan has the right to the throne of the King of kings instead of Shem-Hebrew-Peleg Jacob-Israelite Messiah Yeshua.
Now we know who the Hebrews are, and the side that will win this battle is the Eber-Peleg side, not the Eber-Joktan side of the family.
love, Eden
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