Ἰσραήλ

See also: Ισραήλ

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Ancient GreekEdit

Wikipedia

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

• (5th BC Attic): IPA: /izra͜a.ɛ͜ɛ́l/

• (1st BC Egyptian): IPA: /izraːéːl/

• (4th AD Koine): IPA: /izraíl/

• (10th AD Byzantine): IPA: /izraíl/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan): IPA: /izɾaíl/

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