Habiru

English

Alternative forms

Noun

Habiru pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) People variously described, in 2nd-millennium BCE texts throughout the Fertile Crescent, as rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, bowmen, servants, slaves, and laborers.
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