The flag of the State of Israel A location map of the State of Israel, with disputed territories shown in light green FromMiddle English Israel , fromOld English , borrowed fromLatin Israel , fromAncient Greek Ἰσραήλ ( Israḗl ) , fromHebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל ( yisra'él ,“ Israel ” ) .[ 1] [ 2] In the Bible, it is said to be from the nameיִשְׂרֶה אֵל ( yisré 'él ) given toJacob inGenesis 32 :29, after which his descendants came to be known asIsraelites and their land as the "kingdom/land of Israel". The personal name, already attested inEblaite 𒅖𒊏𒅋 (iš-ra-il ) andUgaritic 𐎊𐎌𐎗𐎛𐎍 ( yšrỉl ) ,[ 3] has been variously translated as "he wrestles with God", "he prevails with God",[ 4] or "God rules" (possibly from the same rootש־ר־ה /ש־ר־ר asשָׂרָה ( “ Sarah ” ) ).[ 5]
Line 27 of theMerneptah Stele (from about 1200B.C.E. ) is thought to contain the earliest attestation of the nameIsrael in any language,Egyptian ysrjꜣr .
Doublet ofYisroel .
enPR :ĭzʹrā-əl ,ĭzʹrē-əl ;IPA (key ) : /ˈɪz.ɹeɪ.əl/ ,/ˈɪz.ɹi.əl/ ( US ) enPR :ĭzʹrāl ;IPA (key ) : /ˈɪz.ɹeɪl/ ( formal and posh RP ) enPR :ĭzʹrā-ĕl ;IPA (key ) : /ˈɪz.ɹeɪ.ɛl/ ( in singing also ) enPR :ĭzʹrī-ĕl ;IPA (key ) : /ˈɪz.ɹaɪ.ɛl/ ( certain Carolina accents ) IPA (key ) : /ˈɪz.ɹɛəl/ Israel (countable anduncountable ,plural Israels )
A country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean . Official name:State of Israel .2023 October 18, “We’re anti-Zionist Jews and we see genocide unfolding in Gaza”, inThe Guardian [2] ,→ISSN :Representative Nancy Pelosi, our California congresswoman, has affirmed that the United States stands “unwaveringly” byIsrael as it conducts its defense[ … ]
( biblical ) A Biblical region ofWestern Asia roughlycoextensive with the modernState of Israel , known in the Bible as theLand of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of theJewish people.( historical ) An ancientkingdom inWestern Asia , roughlycoextensive with the modernState of Israel and theLand of Israel .( historical ) An ancientkingdom that occupied the northern part of theLand of Israel and modernState of Israel , as distinct fromJudah .( historical , Judaism , liturgical, otherwise now proscribed or offensive ) TheJews as a people, takencollectively .2024 August 24 (last accessed), My Jewish learning,The Shema [3] :Hear O’Israel , the Lord is our God, the Lord is One
2024 August 24 (last accessed), My Jewish learning,The Shema [4] :For our ancestors, for us, for our children, for every generation of the peopleIsrael , for all ages from the first to the last, His teachings are true, everlasting.
A malegiven name from Hebrew .Another name forJacob , notably afterGenesis 32:28 and in laterreferences . Asurname . Abarangay ofImelda ,Zamboanga Sibugay ,Philippines Synonym: Balian Israel —old name Coordinate terms: Balugo ,Balungisan ,Baluyan ,Cana-an ,Dumpoc ,Gandiangan ,Guintolan ,Israel ,La Victoria ,Little Baguio ,Lower Baluran ,Lumbog ,Lumpanac ,Mali Little Baguio ,Poblacion ,Pulawan ,San Jose ,Santa Barbara ,Upper Baluran —barangays of Imelda 2015 June, “The Municipality of Imelda receives checks for the completion of their water system project”, inDILG IX [5] :These are intended for the completion of the Construction of Level II Water System Project for barangays Mt. View, Little Baguio andIsrael under the BuB-Water and Construction of Brgy. Bulongisan-Canaan Level II Water Supply under the SALINTUBIG Program.
( region ) : The use ofIsrael to refer to the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in a non-historical sense is (since the latter half of the 20th century) politically charged; indeed, this is true of all terms for this region.( State of Israel ) : theState of Israel ( official name ) ,Israhell ( derogatory ) ,Jewsrael ( derogatory ) ,Zionistan ( derogatory ) ,Isn'treal ( derogatory ) ,Zionist entity ( derogatory ) ( Land of Israel ) : theLand of Israel ,Palestine , theHoly Land ,Canaan ( the Jews ) : theChildren of Israel ,theIsraelites ,Jewry ,Zion → Japanese:イスラエル ( Isuraeru ) the state
Abkhaz:Ауриатәыла ( Awrjatʷʼəla ) ,Израиль ( Izrajlʲ ) Adyghe:Исраил ( Jisrajil ) Afrikaans:Israel Albanian:Izrael m Amharic:እስራኤል ( ʾəsraʾel ) Antillean Creole:Israyèl m Arabic:إِسْرَائِيل (ar) f ( ʔisrāʔīl ) ,دولة إسرائيل f Aramaic:Syriac:ܐܝܣܪܐܝܠ Armenian:Իսրայել (hy) ( Israyel ) Assamese:ইজৰাইল ( izorail ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:ܐܝܣܪܐܝܠ ( isrˀil ) Asturian:Israel (ast) Azerbaijani:İsrail (az) Bashkir:Израиль ( İzrail ) Belarusian:Ізра́іль m ( Izráilʹ ) Bengali:ইসরায়েল (bn) ( israẏel ) Breton:Israel Bulgarian:Израе́л (bg) m ( Izraél ) Burmese:အစ္စရေး ( acca.re: ) Car Nicobarese:Israĕl Catalan:Israel (ca) m Central Atlas Tamazight:ⵉⵙⵔⴰⵢⵉⵍ ( israyil ) Chechen:Израиль ( İzrailʲ ) Chinese:Cantonese:以色列 ( ji5 sik1 lit6 ) ,以國 / 以国 ( ji5 gwok3 ) Eastern Min:以色列 ( Ī-sáik-liĕk ) Hakka:以色列 ( Yî-set-lie̍t ) Hokkien:以色列 ( Í-sek-lia̍t ) Mandarin:以色列 (zh) ( Yǐsèliè ) ,以國 / 以国 (zh) ( Yǐguó ) ,一賜樂業 / 一赐乐业 (zh) ( Yīcìlèyè ) ( dated ) Wu:以色列 ( 5 i-seq-liq) Chuvash:Израиль ( Izrailʹ ) Coptic:ⲡⲓⲥⲣⲁⲏⲗ ( pisraēl ) Corsican:Israele m Czech:Izrael (cs) m Danish:Israel (da) n Dhivehi:އިސްރާއީލު ( isrāīlu ) Dutch:Israël (nl) n Dzongkha:ཨིཛ་རཱེལ་ ( idz rēl ) Esperanto:Israelo (eo) Estonian:Iisrael (et) Faroese:Ísrael n Finnish:Israel (fi) French:Israël (fr) m Galician:Israel (gl) m Georgian:ისრაელი (ka) ( israeli ) German:Israel (de) n Gothic:𐌹𐍃𐍂𐌰𐌴𐌻 m ( israēl ) Greek:Ισραήλ (el) n ( Israḯl ) Ancient:Ἰσραήλ m ( Israḗl ) Gujarati:ઇઝરાયલ m ( ijharāyal ) Hausa:Isra'ila Hebrew:יִשְׂרָאֵל (he) m ( yisra'el ) Hindi:इस्राइल (hi) m ( isrāil ) ,इसराईल (hi) m ( isrāīl ) ,इसराइल (hi) m ( isrāil ) ,इज़राइल (hi) m ( izrāil ) Hungarian:Izrael (hu) Icelandic:Ísrael (is) n Ido:Izrael (io) Indonesian:Israel (id) Interlingua:Israel Irish:Iosrael (ga) m Italian:Israele (it) m Japanese:イスラエル (ja) ( Isuraeru ) Kalenjin:Israel Kamba:Israel Kannada:ಇಸ್ರೇಲ್ (kn) ( isrēl ) Kazakh:Израиль (kk) ( İzrail ) Khmer:អ៊ីស្រាអែល (km) ( ʼiisraaʼael ) Kikuyu:Israel Korean:이스라엘 (ko) ( Iseura'el ) Krymchak:Исраэль Kurdish:Central Kurdish:ئیسرئێل ( îsr'êl ) Northern Kurdish:Îsraêl Kyrgyz:Израиль (ky) ( İzrail ) Lao:ອິດສະລະແອນ ( ʼit sa la ʼǣn ) ,ອິດສະຣາເອນ ( ʼit sa rā ʼēn ) ,ອິດສະຣາແອນ ( ʼit sa rā ʼǣn ) Latin:Israel Latvian:Izraēla (lv) f Lithuanian:Izraelis (lt) m Livonian:Izraēl ,Jūdõmō Luo:Israel Macedonian:Израел (mk) m ( Izrael ) Malay:Israel (ms) Malayalam:ഇസ്രയേൽ ( israyēl ) Maltese:Iżrael Manchu:ᡳᠰᠠᡵᠠᡳᠯ ( isarail ) Mansoanka:Israeli Maori:Iharaira Marathi:इस्रायल n ( isrāyal ) Meru:Israel Mongolian:Cyrillic:Израиль ( Izrailʹ ) ,Израйль (mn) ( Izrajlʹ ) Mongolian:ᠢᠰᠷᠠᠶᠢᠯ ( israyil ) Navajo:Ízrel bikéyah ,Ízrel Neapolitan:Isdraele Nepali:इजरायल ( ijarāyal ) Nogai:Исраил ( Israil ) Norman:Israël m Northern Thai:ᩍᩈᩕᩣᩑᩃ Norwegian:Bokmål:Israel (no) n Nynorsk:Israel (nn) n Occitan:Israèl (oc) m Odia:ଇସ୍ରାଏଲ ( isrāela ) Old Church Slavonic:Cyrillic:Їздраил҄ь m ( Izdrailʹĭ ) Ossetian:Израиль ( Izrailʹ ) Paiwan:Israil Pashto:اسراييل (ps) m ( esrāil ) Persian:Dari:اِسْرَائِیل ( isrā'īl ) Iranian Persian:اِسْرائیل ( esrâ'il ) Plautdietsch:Israel n Polish:Izrael (pl) m inan Portuguese:Israel (pt) Punjabi:Gurmukhi:ਇਜ਼ਰਾਇਲ (pa) ( izarāila ) Rarotongan:Ītarā‘era Romanian:Israel (ro) n Russian:Изра́иль (ru) m ( Izráilʹ ) Samogitian:Izraelės m ,Izraele Valstībė f Sanskrit:इस्रेल ( isrela ) ,इस्रेल ( isrela ) Santali:ᱤᱡᱽᱨᱟᱭᱮᱞ Sardinian:Israele m Scots:Israel Scottish Gaelic:Iosrael f Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:Ѝзраел m Roman:Ìzrael (sh) m Shan:ဢိသရေး ( ʼǐ sǎ rée ) Sicilian:Israeli m Sindhi:اسرائيل Sinhalese:ඊශ්රායෙලය ( īśrāyelaya ) Slovak:Izrael (sk) m Slovene:Ȋzrael (sl) m Somali:Israaiil Spanish:Israel (es) m Swahili:Israeli (sw) Swedish:Israel (sv) n Tagalog:Israel Tajik:Исроил (tg) ( Isroyil ) Tamil:இஸ்ரேல் ( isrēl ) Tatar:Исраил ( İsrail ) Telugu:ఇజ్రాయిల్ ( ijrāyil ) Thai:อิสราเอล (th) ( ìs-raa-eel ) Tibetan:ཨི་སི་ར་ཨེལ ( i si ra el ) Tigrinya:እስራኤል ( ʾəsraʾel ) Turkish:İsrail (tr) Turkmen:Izrail ,Ysraýyl Ukrainian:Ізра́їль (uk) m ( Izrájilʹ ) Urdu:اِسْرائیِل m ( isrāyil ) Uyghur:ئىسرائىلىيە ( isra'iliye ) Uzbek:Isroil (uz) Veps:Izrail' Vietnamese:I-xra-en ,Ít-ra-en ( biblical, Catholicism ) ,Y-sơ-ra-ên ( biblical, Protestantism ) Volapük:Yisraelän Welsh:Israel f West Frisian:Israel (fy) n Yiddish:ישׂראל n ( yisroel ) Yoruba:Iserẹli
the Jews, taken collectively
Biblical: name given to Jacob
^ “Israel ”, inDictionary.com Unabridged ,Dictionary.com, LLC , 1995–present. ^ “Israel ”, inMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.:Merriam-Webster , 1996–present. ^ Michael G. Hasel,Domination and Resistance: Egyptian Military Activity in the Southern Levant (Brill, 1998) ^ James P. Boyd,Bible dictionary (Ottenheimer Publishers, 1958) ^ Victor P. Hamilton,The Book of Genesis: Chapters 18–50 (NICOT, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995) Ariels ,Lieras ,serial ,serail ,railes ,resail ,Sal Rei ,ariels ,Realis ,sailer ,Isreal ,relais ,Alires ,Sailer ,realis Inherited fromDutch Israël , fromMiddle Dutch israel , fromOld Dutch israel , fromLatin Isrāēl , fromAncient Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ ( Isrāḗl ) , fromBiblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל .
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Israel (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean )Piter Kehoma Boll (2021 ) “Israel”, inDicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti:Riograndenser Hunsrickisch ,page83 , column 2 Borrowed fromEnglish Israel .
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Israeli FromDutch Israël , fromMiddle Dutch israel , fromOld Dutch israel , fromLatin Isrāēl , fromAncient Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ ( Isrāḗl ) , fromBiblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל .Doublet ofIsrail .
IPA (key ) : [ɪsˈrael] Hyphenation:Is‧ra‧él Israel
Israel :A country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean ( biblical ) A Biblical region ofWestern Asia roughlycoextensive with the modernState of Israel , known in the Bible as theLand of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of theJewish people( historical ) An ancientkingdom inWestern Asia , roughlycoextensive with the modernState of Israel and theLand of Israel ( historical ) An ancientkingdom that occupied the northern part of theLand of Israel and modernState of Israel , as distinct fromJudah theJews , taken collectivelySynonym: Yahudi Israel
( all senses ) Israel Borrowed fromKoine Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ ( Isrāḗl ) , fromBiblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל ( Yiśrāʾēl ) . The spellingIstrāhēl , fromἸστρᾱήλ ( Istrāḗl ) , was predominant until the dissemination ofJerome ’sVulgate (5th centuryCE ), which popularizedIsrāhēl . Theh was gradually lost thereafter.[ 1]
Isrāēl m sg (genitive Isrāēl or Isrāēlis ) ;indeclinable , variously declined,third declension
( Late Latin , Ecclesiastical Latin ) Israel , another name of the patriarchJacob 405CE ,
Jerome ,
Vulgate Genesis.32.28:
At ille: Nequaquam, inquit, Iacob appellabitur nomen tuum, sedIsrahel : quoniam si contra Deum fortis fuisti quanto magis contra homines praevalebis. (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation) ( New Latin ) Israel (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean )Indeclinable noun orthird-declension noun, singular only.
^ Souter, Alexander (1949 ) “Istrahēl ”, inA Glossary of Later Latin to 600 A.D. [1] , 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, published1957 , page222 Israel
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Israel (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean )Old Galician-Portuguese [ edit ] Learned borrowing fromEcclesiastical Latin Israel , borrowed fromKoine Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ ( Isrāḗl ) , borrowed fromBiblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל .
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( biblical ) Israel (A Biblical region ofWestern Asia roughlycoextensive with the modernState of Israel , known in the Bible as theLand of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of theJewish people)( biblical ) Israel ( another name for Jacob ) Galician:Israel Portuguese:Israel (see there for further descendants ) Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006 –2018 ) “[ ijy s?r+ael]”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega Israel n
Israel (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean )Inherited fromOld Galician-Portuguese Israel , borrowed fromEcclesiastical Latin Israel , borrowed fromKoine Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ ( Isrāḗl ) , borrowed fromBiblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל .
Rhymes:( Portugal ) -ɛl ,( Brazil ) -ɛw Hyphenation:Is‧ra‧el Israel m (plural Israéis )
Israel (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean ; official name:Estado de Israel )( biblical ) Israel (A Biblical region ofWestern Asia roughlycoextensive with the modernState of Israel , known in the Bible as theLand of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of theJewish people)a malegiven name , equivalent to EnglishIsrael Israel is never indicated by an article; see usage notes forPortugal .
Borrowed fromHebrew ישראל .
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Israel (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean )IPA (key ) : /israˈel/ [iz.raˈel] Rhymes:-el Syllabification:Is‧ra‧el ~ [is.r̥a'el] Israel m
Israel (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean )Jacob 1602 ,Casiodoro de Reina ,La Santa Biblia , rev.,Genesis 32:28Y él dijo: No se dirá más tu nombre Jacob, sinoIsrael : porque has peleado con Dios y con los hombres, y has vencido. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, butIsrael : for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. (KJV) a malegiven name from Hebrew, equivalent to EnglishIsrael IPA (key ) : /²iːsˌrɛːl/ Hyphenation:Is‧rael Israel n (genitive Israels )
Israel (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean )Borrowed fromSpanish Israel ( “ Israel ” ) , fromLatin Israel , fromAncient Greek Ἰσραήλ ( Israḗl ) , fromHebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל ( yisra'él ,“ Israel ” ) .
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Israel (a country inWestern Asia , in theMiddle East , at the easternshore of theMediterranean )Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.