Is There A Difference Between Israelites, Hebrews and Jews?

Ever wondered why the Jewish people have some many names? Biblical scholar Dr. Mark Strauss explores the origins and meanings behind the various names modern audiences consider to be synonymous.

[doxholiday]

"Strictly speaking, it is incorrect to call an ancient Israelite a Jew, or to call a contemporary Jew an Israelite or Hebrew." -The Jewish Almanac, 1980, p3

[gogetitg]

I feel like im saved everytime i see someone who makes things so clear! Tnks bro

[marvindodson]

I think we can safely say that many lies were told especially Where it’s concerning the country Israel, the people Israel, the true biblical Jews and the Jewish people. but I always say The Most High will reveal the truth in time. Barak ahtha YAHAWAH bahasham YAHAWASHI bahasham RAWCHAA QADASH, Qam Yasharahla And Shalawam.

[terriejohnston]

Short..sweet. & to the point...Deeper studies are always fun to learn & explore.

[annecohen]

I’m going to say it, Yes. I’m going to also probably say this the the Hebrews and the Canaanites existed before the Israelites and the Jews. Israel wasn’t at first being referred to the land, it was referred to the people who settled on the land.

[yvettey]

I was just asking these questions and seeking answers online last week. And this video miraculously showed up! Praise the LORD!

[melvinvines]

See how the word game is played. Israelites spoke Hebrew, the Greeks called them Jews. They got nothing to do with Jewish. They man said it correct, he never said the word Jewish which are Khazars.

[UrijahBen]

Genesis chapter eleven verse ten
Explains the genealogy of Shem
Shem was a black man, in Africa
If you repeat this fact they can't laugh at you
Genesis fourteen verse thirteen
Abraham was born
Being a descendant of Shem which is a fact
Means, Abraham too was black
Abraham born in the city of a Black Man
Called Nimrod grandson of Ham
Ham had four sons, one was named Canaan
Here, let me do some explaining
Abraham was the father of Isaac
Isaac was the father of Jacob
Jacob had twelve sons,
And these, were the children of Israel
According to Genesis chapter ten
Egyptians descended from Ham
Six hundred years later, read up
Moses was born in Egypt
In this era black Egyptians weren't right
They enslaved black Israelites
Moses had to be of the black race
Because he spent forty years in Pharaoh's place
He passed as the Pharaoh's grandson
So he had to look just like him..
Read the Bible study your History and correct the wrong….

[allegrabrown]

Jews and Hebrew are DIFFERENT. History wise and biblical.

[diehardgunner]

Then if this is the case, why do "we" incorrectly use these words as synonyms today? Unless the goal is deliberately confuse. I can be a Jew and not Hebrew at all. And if that's the case anyone can be Jewish through conversion and the practice of Judaism. And if thats the case being Jewish has nothing to do with being a decendant of Israel. And if that's the case, the claim to being original people of Palestine.... u see how this works? Words are important.

[theselector]

Many of the comments below are more accurate than the video.
The terms Jew and Judaism came MUCH LATER than the ancient biblical times.
Hebrews and Isrealites are correct. If anything their religion 'could' be called Hebrewism.

[rogermetzger]

I watched the video and then read a couple dozen of the comments.

Wow! I knew there were differences of opinion on this subject but I had no idea there were so many perspectives. I’d really like to learn more about this subject but I'm 78 so, only if the Lord tarries will I have time to learn about each of the perspectives about which I have read so far.

Maybe I can ask people to respond to this comment who agree that:
A: Abraham was Hebrew.
B: Jacob’s name was changed to Israel.
C: Israelites are people who have the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Israel.
D: Moses was an Israelite but he was from the tribe of Levi. He was not from the tribe of Judah and thus Moses was not a Jew in any sense of the word.
E: After the death of Solomon, the kingdom was divided.
F: The northern kingdom continued to be called Israel and the southern kingdom came to be called Judah (the land area occupied by the southern kingdom came to be called Judea) because the majority of the citizens of the southern kingdom were from the tribe of Judah. Eventually, the word, “Jew”, was employed as a designation for all of the citizens of the southern kingdom. Long after the death of Solomon and the division of the kingdom, many of the citizens of the southern kingdom continued to be Israelites in the sense of having the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Israel (Jacob).
G: Ruth became an Israelite by being born again, i.e. by the miracle of her rebirth, Ruth acquired the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Israel.
H: Over a period of hundreds of years (maybe as many as a thousand) many of the citizens of the southern kingdom gradually abandoned the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Israel in favor of a religion based more on rabbinical traditions and traditional interpretations of the Hebrew Bible than on the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Israel and the instructions given by the creator through the Hebrew prophets of antiquity. By the time Jesus was born, those traditions and traditional interpretations had very nearly obscured the faith of the Hebrew patriarchs and prophets.
I: The life teachings, miracles, crucifixion, burial, resurrection and ascension of Jesus accomplished many things, one of which was to encourage a refocus on the faith of the Hebrew patriarchs and prophets of antiquity and the discarding of SOME (not necessarily all) of the rabbinical traditions and traditional interpretations of traditional Judaism.
J: In response to the teachings of Jesus, some of the citizens of the southern kingdom compared the life of Jesus with the prophecies in the Hebrew Bible and concluded that Jesus was the true Messiah that had been foretold by the Hebrew prophets of antiquity. The majority of the Hebrews still living in Judea, however, followed their traditionalist religious leaders in rejecting Jesus. In rejecting Jesus, they were “broken off” (Romans 11) from the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Israel and were, therefore, no longer truly Israelites.
K: People who aren’t Hebrew can become Israelites by faith in the Messiah and are thus “grafted” into the Messiah. This miracle - known as the new birth - does not make them Hebrew or Israelis but it does mean that they are now Israelites (even if they don’t realize all of the implications of faith in the Messiah).
L: In the first century A.D. an apostasy began that was similar to that of the citizens of the southern kingdom. Beliefs and practices of the religion of the Greeks, the Romans and others were adopted or adapted for the purpose of making it easier for non-Hebrews to profess faith in Jesus as the Messiah but the adoption of those traditions began to obscure the faith of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, especially as ostensibly Christian “leaders” acquiesced to the hatred toward Hebrews that was rife in the Roman Empire at that time. Ostensibly Christian “leaders” even came to the point of holding subsequent generations of Hebrews culpable in the crucifixion of Jesus.
M: Hebrews living in the twenty-first century are NOT culpable in the crucifixion of Jesus.
N: It is easier for Hebrews than non-Hebrews to acquire faith in the Messiah. Faith is the evidence of things not seen and almost all of the evidence is acquired by comparing the life of Jesus with the prophecies in the Hebrew Bible (aka old testament).
O: It is one thing to pray that many, most or all Hebrews will acquire faith in the Messiah. It is quite another thing to pray that Hebrews will adopt traditions that were never truly Christian but that, over the first several hundred years A.D. came to be regarded as Christian.
P: A person doesn’t become an Israelite by adopting the traditions of Judaism, by using Hebrew names for deity or by moving to the modern political nation of Israel and becoming an Israeli.

[Aggresivecherokee]

If you're trying to find out who Hebrews are. Why not look to the Nigerians, the Igbo. They are called the Jews of West Africa...I believe the one of the spellings of their name is even phonetically similar to Hebrew. It's Heebo... just missing the R.

[ericbrown]

J words wasn't invented then. So that's false

[bethelshiloh]

That is a very helpful word picture. Thank you.

[Ifyouonlyknewtruth]

One went into slavery twice the other did not .

[undisputedtruth]

Hebrews refers to what was a large group of peoples speaking the same foundational language, Israelites refers to those sons of Jacob/Israel, and Jews refers to Khazarian conveys to the ways of Israelites. Even there, you're talking about the transmutation of one peoples way of life to another peoples religeon.

[apostlecurtislouisakascmfoy]

So my question is according to the bible Ashkenazi come from Japheth not Shem ( Genesis 10:2-5 ) so are they (Ashkenazi) not the bloodline Israelites ???

[JadonAzrielAntonJaseendran]

Hebrew is a language. Judaism is a religion. Israel is a country. Not all Israelis are Jews and not all Jews are Israeli, not all Jews speak Hebrew and not everything in the religious text of judaism is Hebrew.

[MetaphysicalZero]

Eber from Abraham, ( Ibra)him sounds familiar as a prefix. In the (Iber)ia peninsula one of the biggest rivers is the Ebro River. Again the same names. And just to finish in Lisbon Portugal there is the Mount Abraham ( Portuguese: Monte Abraão ) which have some of the oldest ruins in that country, and together with Spain form the two countries of that peninsula. Much more can be added on geography alone in that area, but the person must have studied the Kabala otherwise will not grasp it.