Israel Definition

ĭzrē-əl
noun
A masculine name: dim. Izzy.
Webster's New World
Jacob.
Webster's New World
The Jewish people, as descendants of Jacob.
Webster's New World
The Hebrew people, past, present, and future, regarded as the chosen people of God by virtue of the covenant of Jacob.
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Synonyms:
pronoun
A male given name.
Wiktionary
(biblical) A name given to Jacob (Genesis 32:28).
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The State of Israel, a modern country in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean.

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(historical) A nation that occupied roughly the same area in ancient times.
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(historical) An ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of this area, as distinct from Judah.

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Origin of Israel

  • Middle English from Old English from Latin from Greek Israēl from Hebrew yiśrā’ēl God has striven, God has saved yiśrā he has striven, saved śry in Semitic roots ’ēl God ℵl in Semitic roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él, “Israel”), which, in Biblical Hebrew, means "he who wrestles with God" (a Biblical name for Jacob after he wrestles with an adversary).

    From Wiktionary

Israel Sentence Examples

  • This happened when Israel Putnam was a young man.

  • He was the foremost Jewish figure of the 18th century, and to him is attributable the renaissance of the House of Israel.

  • All access to the Deity is restricted to the one priesthood and to the one sanctuary at Jerusalem; the worshipping subject is the nation of Israel as a unity, and the function of worship is discharged on its behalf by divinely chosen priests.

  • In fact, while Robertson Smith (in Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, as well as his Religion of the Semites, followed by Stade and Benzinger) strongly advocated the view that clear traces of totemism can be found in early Israel, later writers, such as Marti, Gesch.

  • Religion, 4th ed., p. 24, Kautzsch in his Religion of Israel already cited, p. 613, and recently Addis in his Hebrew Religion, p. 33 foll., have abandoned the theory as applied to Israel. ?

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