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"ʿApiru "
"is a term used in 2nd-millennium BCE texts throughout the Fertile Crescent for a social status of people who were variously described as rebels, outlaws, raiders, mercenaries, bowmen, servants, slaves, and laborers.[1][2][3][4][5][6]"
"A considerable possibility remains that the beginnings of the Israelite history are bound with the wandering Apiru.[73] The Bible might have preserved a vague memory that the Patriarchs had once been Apiru.[74][75][76][77]"
"Originally the term Hebrew had nothing to do with race or ethnic origin. It derived from Habiru, a variant spelling of Ḫapiru (Apiru)"
"The term Habiru, meaning “Outsiders,” was applied to nomads, fugitives, bandits, and workers of inferior status; the word is etymologically related t"
Brittannica Hapiru
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hapiru
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