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israel
/ˈɪz.ɹeɪl/
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What does israel mean?
proper noun
- A country in Western Asia in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Official name: State of 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.
- The Jews as a people, taken collectively.
More meanings (6)
proper noun
- A male given name from Hebrew.
- Another name for Jacob, notably after Genesis 32:28 and in later references.
- A surname.
- A barangay of Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.
- (historical) An ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel.
- (historical) An ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɪz.ɹeɪl/
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See this word in context.
Despite limited natural resources, Israel has developed its agriculture and industry sectors on an intensive scale over the past 20 years.
O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver?
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Then, seating himself, he read carefully through the thirteen chapters of Genesis which chronicle the story of the founder of Israel.
And the coxswain, Israel Hands, was a careful, wily, old, experienced seaman who could be trusted at a pinch with almost anything.
Once the angels of the other nations are terrified, the nations themselves venture not to carry out their wicked designs against Israel.