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  Habiru: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Habiru or Hapiru was the name given by various Sumeria Sumer quick summary:
Akkadian was a language of the semitic family spoken in ancient mesopotamia, particularly by the assyrians and babylonians....
The numbers of the Habiru of the 2nd millennium BC grew from the peasants who had fled the increasingly oppressive economic conditions of the Assyria Assyria quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/ha/habiru.htm   (4576 words)

  
 Hebrew (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
The name is derived, according to some, from Eber (Gen.
The term "Hebrew" comes from Eber, but the descendants of Eber also include the "Habiru." Discoveries at Ebla, in northern Syria, seems to indicate the founder and king of Ebla to be "Ebrim."
Others trace the name of a Hebrew root-word signifying "to pass over," and hence regard it as meaning "the man who passed over," viz., the Euphrates; or to the Hebrew word meaning "the region" or "country beyond," viz., the land of Chaldea.
www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/hebrew.html   (227 words)

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