ysrjꜣr
Egyptian edit
Etymology edit
If the term means Israel, as is considered most likely, then borrowed from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrāʾēl). (However, alternative readings have sometimes been proposed, such as Jezreel.)
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Egyptological) IPA(key): /iːsriɑr/
Proper noun edit
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- a demonym or placename; probably Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, approximately coincident with the modern State of Israel)
- c. 1208 B.C.E., Merneptah Stele, Line 27:
- ysrjꜣr fkt bn prt.f
- Israel is laid waste, and he has no seed.
- c. 1208 B.C.E., Merneptah Stele, Line 27:
References edit
- “Yzrꜣr (lemma ID 859140)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae[1], Corpus issue 17, Web app version 2.01 edition, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–15 December 2022