Ἰσραήλ
See also: Ισραήλ
Ancient Greek edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yiśrāʾēl, “struggling with El”).
Pronunciation edit
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iz.raˈe̝l/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iz.raˈil/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iz.raˈil/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iz.raˈil/
Proper noun edit
Ἰσρᾱήλ • (Isrāḗl) m (indeclinable) (Koine, Byzantine)
- (biblical) Israel (a name given to the Jewish patriarch Jacob)
- Israel, the descendants of Jacob which formed a nation
- (Christianity) the Christian church, the “New Israel”
Inflection edit
Derived terms edit
- Ἰσρᾱηλῑ́της (Isrāēlī́tēs)
Descendants edit
References edit
- 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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible