イスラエル
Japanese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English Israel.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
- Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
- (biblical) Israel (A Biblical region of Western Asia roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel, known in the Bible as the Land of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people)
- (historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel)
- (historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah)
- (biblical) Israel (Jacob)
- 1996 June 15 [1995 October 10], Narita, Minako, “SCENE.1 ミカエルという名の生き物 [SCENE.1 A Living Namesake of Archangel Michael]”, in NATURAL (NATURAL), 3rd edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Hakusensha, →ISBN, page 100:
- ミカエル(Michael)
ユダヤ教・キリスト教・イスラム教の天使の名。旧約聖書ではイスラエルの守護天使とされ、新約聖書ではサタンとの闘いを指揮する
その役割から武装した青年の姿をとって描かれることが多い- Mikaeru (Michael)
Yudaya-kyō, Kirisuto-kyō, Isuramu-kyō no tenshi no na. Kyūyaku Seisho de wa Isuraeru no Shugo Tenshi to sare, Shin’yaku Seisho de wa Satan to no tatakai o shikisuru
Sono yakuwari kara busōshita seinen no sugata o totte negakareru koto ga ōi - Michael
The name of an angel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is regarded as the Guardian Angel of Israel as per the Old Testament, and he is said to have commanded the forces against Satan as per the New Testament
As such, he is commonly depicted as an armed young man
- Mikaeru (Michael)
See also edit
- イスラエル国 (Isuraeru-koku)
- ヤコブ (Yakobu)
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “イスラエル”, in 日本国語大辞典 (Nihon Kokugo Daijiten, “Nihon Kokugo Daijiten”) [1] (in Japanese), 2nd edition, Tōkyō: Shogakukan, 2000, released online 2007, →ISBN, concise edition entry available here (Note: Dialectal meanings, etymological theories, pronunciation including modern, dialectal, and historical information, Jōdai Tokushu Kanazukai, historical dictionaries containing this word, and the kanji spellings in those dictionaries have been omitted.)