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hebruesHebrews

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
1,155 times in 218 works
Consistency
98.8% (1,155 of 1,169)
Reach if approved
~1,228 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: hebrews
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
1,169 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (1,155 changes in 218 works, 98.8% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 1,155)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … in them, by meanes whereof, many may be infected, (wherof Paul did forewarne ye HebruesHebrews) that is to ſay, leſt looſing their faith vtterly, they beginne to be defiled …
    With rule
    … in them, by meanes whereof, many may be infected, (wherof Paul did forewarne ye HebruesHebrews) that is to ſay, leſt looſing their faith vtterly, they beginne to be defiled …

    Martin Luther · The Liberty of a Christian · p. 85 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … also hath God the father forgyuen vs thorowe Iesus Christ oure Lorde. To the HebruesHebrews agayne he wrytethe, Christe in hys owne parson pourged our synnes, & is set on …
    With rule
    … also hath God the father forgyuen vs thorowe Iesus Christ oure Lorde. To the HebruesHebrews agayne he wrytethe, Christe in hys owne parson pourged our synnes, & is set on …

    Thomas Becon · A New Years Gift More Precious than Gold · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … Grecians, and of others, it is manifeſt they did it frō the Egiptians and HebruesHebrews.
    With rule
    … Grecians, and of others, it is manifeſt they did it frō the Egiptians and HebruesHebrews.

    Dudley Fenner · The Arts of Logic and Rhetoric · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    My third argument, as Bristowe calleth it, is this: The Apostle to the HebruesHebrews cap. 10. teacheth vs, that Christ offering but one sacrifice for our sinnes (and that …
    With rule
    My third argument, as Bristowe calleth it, is this: The Apostle to the HebruesHebrews cap. 10. teacheth vs, that Christ offering but one sacrifice for our sinnes (and that …

    William Fulke · Rejoinder to Bristows Reply · p. 304 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … is not accidentall, or ſuch as may be imparted to a man. The learned HebruesHebrews according to this do hold, that Euſoph or Infinitie, is not to bee numbred …
    With rule
    … is not accidentall, or ſuch as may be imparted to a man. The learned HebruesHebrews according to this do hold, that Euſoph or Infinitie, is not to bee numbred …

    Alexander Gill · Treatise Concerning the Trinity of Persons in Unity of the Deity · p. 65 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … make in the court / as cruell Haman thought to haue made amonge the faythfull HebruesHebrews belonginge to good quene Hester / had not God by the hygh wisdome of oure …
    With rule
    … make in the court / as cruell Haman thought to haue made amonge the faythfull HebruesHebrews belonginge to good quene Hester / had not God by the hygh wisdome of oure …

    John Bale · Exhortation of an English Christian unto his Beloved Country · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … In the Effectes of Christes Croſſe he noted out of the Apostle to the HebruesHebrews, three properties of the true propitiatorie Sacrifice which tooke away the ſinne of the …
    With rule
    … In the Effectes of Christes Croſſe he noted out of the Apostle to the HebruesHebrews, three properties of the true propitiatorie Sacrifice which tooke away the ſinne of the …

    Henry Jacob · Defense of a Treatise Touching the Suffering and Victory of Christ · p. 35 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … on Chriſt: both theſe, as uſefull to the third, are laid downe in the HebruesHebrews: Let us lay a ſide every waight, and the ſin which doth ſo eaſily …
    With rule
    … on Chriſt: both theſe, as uſefull to the third, are laid downe in the HebruesHebrews: Let us lay a ſide every waight, and the ſin which doth ſo eaſily …

    Alexander Leighton · The Looking Glass of the Holy War · p. 296 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (14)

11 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 3 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.

A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel A01304

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    … suffered the paines of death in Oxforde. S. Paule in his Epistle willed the hebruesHebrews, to haue in remembrance their Bishoppes, which preached vnto them the woorde of God …
    With rule
    … suffered the paines of death in Oxforde. S. Paule in his Epistle willed the hebruesHebrews, to haue in remembrance their Bishoppes, which preached vnto them the woorde of God …

    William Fulke · A Confutation of a Popish and Slanderous Libel · p. 2 · Open in the reader

Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God A13881

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    … ſhould haue beene choſen all the churche. For when the Grecians murmured againſt the hebruesHebrews and complained that they had wronge / for that in the diſtribucion which was dailie …
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    … ſhould haue beene choſen all the churche. For when the Grecians murmured againſt the hebruesHebrews and complained that they had wronge / for that in the diſtribucion which was dailie …

    Walter Travers · Declaration of Ecclesiastical Discipline out of the Word of God · p. 55 · Open in the reader

The Obedience of a Christian Man A14136

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    … vs from all synne in the sighte of God / as the pistle vnto the hebruesHebrews maketh mencion. When Moyses was gone Vp in to the mounts and Aaron left …
    With rule
    … vs from all synne in the sighte of God / as the pistle vnto the hebruesHebrews maketh mencion. When Moyses was gone Vp in to the mounts and Aaron left …

    William Tyndale · The Obedience of a Christian Man · Open in the reader

Commentary on Romans A14353

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    … rather then they would forſake theyr place and ſtanding; So would God, that the hebruesHebrews being now of full age and at mans ſtate ſhould defend the profeſſion of …
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    … rather then they would forſake theyr place and ſtanding; So would God, that the hebruesHebrews being now of full age and at mans ſtate ſhould defend the profeſſion of …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentary on Romans · Open in the reader

The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A14354

  • Printed
    … of the vnbeleauers. Moses also / as it is writon in the epistle to the hebruesHebrews / might if he wold haue beene ta ken for the Sonne of Pharaos daughter …
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    … of the vnbeleauers. Moses also / as it is writon in the epistle to the hebruesHebrews / might if he wold haue beene ta ken for the Sonne of Pharaos daughter …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … ffurst / paul doth denie it in most playn words in the epistle to the hebruesHebrews / wher he sayeth that all oblacions for synne wer consummate and finished / and all …
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    … ffurst / paul doth denie it in most playn words in the epistle to the hebruesHebrews / wher he sayeth that all oblacions for synne wer consummate and finished / and all …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … sauiour in his administration / and after him all his apostles and disciples which wer hebruesHebrews / vsed theyr vulgare hebrue tongue / the Grecians also their greke tonge. And euen vnto …
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    … sauiour in his administration / and after him all his apostles and disciples which wer hebruesHebrews / vsed theyr vulgare hebrue tongue / the Grecians also their greke tonge. And euen vnto …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · The Cohabitation of the Faithful with the Unfaithful · p. 82 · Open in the reader

A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 A18080

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    … be put to deathe: what wil the anſwerer ſaie / vnto the writer vnto the hebruesHebrews which ſaithe / that he that deſpiſethe the lawe off Moſes vnder two or three …
    With rule
    … be put to deathe: what wil the anſwerer ſaie / vnto the writer vnto the hebruesHebrews which ſaithe / that he that deſpiſethe the lawe off Moſes vnder two or three …

    Thomas Cartwright · A Second Reply to an Answer Made by Doctor Whitgift Part 1 · p. LXVIII · Open in the reader

Commentaries A68840

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    … ſo. I know right wel, that the church hath borowed certayne words of the hebruesHebrews, as Sathan, Oſianna, Zebaoth, Halleluia, Paſah, or Paſcha, and ſuch other mo. But we …
    With rule
    … ſo. I know right wel, that the church hath borowed certayne words of the hebruesHebrews, as Sathan, Oſianna, Zebaoth, Halleluia, Paſah, or Paſcha, and ſuch other mo. But we …

    Peter Martyr Vermigli · Commentaries · p. 41 · Open in the reader

Answer to Thomas More B16147

  • Printed
    … then an elder? And it was no doute taken of the custome of the hebruesHebrews / where the offycers were ever elderly mē as nature requireth. As yt appereth in …
    With rule
    … then an elder? And it was no doute taken of the custome of the hebruesHebrews / where the offycers were ever elderly mē as nature requireth. As yt appereth in …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · Open in the reader

  • Printed
    … because they know not the vse of speakynge of the scripture or of the hebruesHebrews / how that nye kinsmen becalled brethern / or happly they might be Iosephes childern / by …
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    … because they know not the vse of speakynge of the scripture or of the hebruesHebrews / how that nye kinsmen becalled brethern / or happly they might be Iosephes childern / by …

    William Tyndale · Answer to Thomas More · p. xviij · Open in the reader