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Habiru

Habiru or Apiru ( Egyptian: ˁpr.w) was the name given by various Sumerian, Egyptian, Akkadian, Hittite, Mitanni, and Ugaritic sources (dated, roughly, between 1800 BC and 1100 BC) to a group of people living as nomadic invaders in areas of the Fertile Crescent from Northeastern Mesopotamia and Iran to the borders of Egypt in Canaan. Depending on the source and epoch, these Habiru are variously described as nomadic or semi-nomadic, rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, and bowmen, servants, slaves, migrant laborers, etc. The Habiru are often identified as the early Hebrews.

The names Habiru and Apiru are used in Akkadian cuneiform texts. The corresponding name in the Egyptian script appears to be ʕpr.w, conventionally pronounced Apiru (the w representing the Egyptian plural suffix). In Mesopotamian records they are also identified by the Sumerian logogram SA.GAZ. The name Habiru was also found in the Amarna letters to Egyptian pharaohs, along with many names of Canaanite peoples written in Akkadian.

Usage examples of "habiru".

The late Bronze and early Iron Age Greeks were becoming masters of the ancient Aegean just about when the Amorites, Moabites, and earliest Habiru or Hebrews were overrunning Canaan.

Stay here and slowly go mad, thinking about Hyacinthe and spending my days praying some poor, God-ridden Habiru mystic will stumble across the Sacred Name?

Shalomon and Khiram the architect fled the fall of the Habiru empire over a thousand years ago.

Trade and war alike existed between the Habiru nation and Jebe-Barkal in the old days.

I wondered how he knew and I bethought myself of Melisande Shahrizai, who had managed access, in her Serenissiman exile, to Hellene translations of Habiru texts, to rare Jebean manuscripts.

It came to her ears that a king far to the north, Shalomon of the Habiru, was similarly lauded for the virtue of his judgement.

Imriel, who understood Habiru a little, owing to its similarity to Akkadian, but not enough, yet, to follow a conversation.

Why would one such as you want to study Habiru and the teachings of the Mashiach?

I saw Joscelin turn, eyes wide and startled as the murmured Habiru reached his ear.

That had been years before the Synedrium had stiffened the separation laws between Catholic and Habiru rituals.

His father and most of his acquaintances had been Habiru and spoke Hebrew.

At that communion, not only had Habiru and Catholic worshiped, but also the now-separate Muslims and a few diverse creeds best left forgotten.

You wish to study Habiru and learn a secret to unlock the chain that binds this Tsingano friend of yours.

And when I was not doing any of these things, I met with the Rebbe Nahum ben Isaac and bent my mind to the difficult tasks he set me, droning Habiru verses for hour upon hour, while he chewed his beard and glowered at me.

I had not forgotten what I saw in the courtyard, the young men with swords at their hips, arguing fiercely in Habiru for harsh glory to be won in a far-off land.