They are found in Egyptian literature as Apiru. 3 These Habiru (or Apiru), wherever found, are clearly described or inferred to be aliens, wanderers, adventurers, men without a country; and as such they appear allover the Near East,4 never distinctly connected with a country of their own. They seem to have moved from land to land with the greatest facility; and this nomadism gained for them the appellative tIvri with no ethnic connotation whatever. Later it becomes a gentilic 5 and then specifically the ethnic name of a group of people known as the Hebrews. The 'Ivrim (plural form) were a part of the Hurrian migration to the west, with Abraham among the migratory movements to Canaan, the prototype in early patriarchal narratives. The Hyksos avalanche from the north followed on the laenesis 14:13. 2 Meek, Ope cit., p. 7. 3 Ibid., p. 12. 4Archaeological evidence: Akkadian texts from Hurrian city of Nuzij Egyptian texts, Stele of Seti I; Ugaritic texts from Has Shamra in Syria. 5The gentilic ending was added to the name of a "people". The usual procedure is geographical identification, e.g. Ameriea-American. .