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Ebionites

Ebionites is the plural of Ebionite.

Meaning of Ebionite

Noun

Ebionite (plural Ebionites)

  1. (historical) A member of an early Jewish Christian sect that lived in and around Judea and Palestine from the 1st to the 4th century.
    • And if the pious bishop and martyr, St. Irenaeus, happen to drop any thing pointed against the Doctor's progenitors, the ancient Ebionites, of heretical memory, he gently passes it over as though no such passages occurred in that learned and venerable Father's writings.1798, David Simpson, An Apology for the Doctrine of the Trinity, page 504

Questions about Ebionites

What is Ebionites the plural of?
Ebionites is the plural of Ebionite.

Words near Ebionites in the dictionary

  1. Ebionised
  2. Ebionises
  3. Ebionising
  4. Ebionism
  5. Ebionite
  6. Ebionites
  7. Ebionitic
  8. Ebionitism
  9. Ebionitisms
  10. Ebionize
  11. Ebionized

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