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Lost Tribes   /lɔst traɪbz/   Listen
Lost Tribes

noun
1.
The ten Tribes of Israel that were deported into captivity in Assyria around 720 BC (leaving only the tribes of Judah and Benjamin).





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"Lost Tribes" Quotes from Famous Books



... James Adair (an Indian trader and resident in the country for forty years), London, 1775. A very valuable book, but a good deal marred by the author's irrepressible desire to twist every Indian utterance, habit, and ceremony into a proof that they are descended from the Ten Lost Tribes. He gives the number of Cherokee warriors ...
— The Winning of the West, Volume One - From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 • Theodore Roosevelt


Words linked to "Lost Tribes" :   Tribes of Israel, Twelve Tribes of Israel


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