Ἰσραήλ

See also: Ισραήλ

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Ancient GreekEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from Hebrew ישראל‏ (Yiśrāʼēl, “struggling with El”).

PronunciationEdit

 

• IPA^(key): /iz.raː.ɛ̌ːl/ → /iz.raˈil/ → /iz.raˈil/

• (5^th BC Attic) IPA^(key): /iz.raː.ɛ̌ːl/
• (1^st BC Egyptian) IPA^(key): /iz.raˈel/
• (4^th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /iz.raˈil/
• (10^th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /iz.raˈil/
• (15^th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /iz.raˈil/

Proper nounEdit

Ἰσρᾱήλ • (Isrāḗl) m (indeclinable)

1. Israel, a name given to the Jewish patriarch Jacob.
2. Israel, the descendents of Jacob which formed a nation.
3. the term is also often applied to the Christian community in the NT, the "New Israel."

InflectionEdit

Ἰσρᾱήλ (indeclinable)

Case / #	Singular
Nominative	ὁ Ἰσρᾱήλ
Genitive	τοῦ Ἰσρᾱήλ
Dative	τῷ Ἰσρᾱήλ
Accusative	τὸν Ἰσρᾱήλ
Vocative	Ἰσρᾱήλ

The personal name rarely takes a definite article.

Derived termsEdit

• Ἰσρᾱηλῑ́της (Isrāēlī́tēs)

DescendantsEdit

• Greek: Ισραήλ (Israíl)
• Latin: Isrāēl

ReferencesEdit

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2474”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979