Ἰσραήλ
See also: Ισραήλ
Ancient GreekEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Hebrew ישראל (Yiśrāʼēl, “struggling with El”).
PronunciationEdit
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /iz.raˈel/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /iz.raˈil/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /iz.raˈil/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /iz.raˈil/
Proper nounEdit
Ἰσρᾱήλ • (Isrāḗl) m (indeclinable) (Koine, Byzantine)
- Israel, a name given to the Jewish patriarch Jacob.
- Israel, the descendants of Jacob which formed a nation.
- the term is also often applied to the Christian community in the NT, the "New Israel."
InflectionEdit
Derived termsEdit
- Ἰσρᾱηλῑ́της (Isrāēlī́tēs)
DescendantsEdit
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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible