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chosen people

DEFINITIONS OF: chosen people

1

n any people believing themselves to be chosen by God

Types:
Hebrews, Israelites
the ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19)
Type of:
people
(plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively
WORD FAMILY
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