• (abbreviation) Isr.
• (misspelling) Isreal
• (surname): Yisrael
• (obsolete): Israhel

From Middle English Israel, from Old English, borrowed from Latin Israel, from Ancient Greek Ἰσραήλ (Israḗl), from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él, “Israel”).^[1][2] In the Bible, it is said to be from the name יִשְׂרֶה אֵל (yisré 'él) given to Jacob in Genesis 32:29, after which his descendants came to be known as Israelites and their land as the "kingdom/land of Israel". The personal name, already attested in Eblaite 𒅖𒊏𒅋 (iš-ra-il) and Ugaritic 𐎊𐎌𐎗𐎛𐎍 (yšrỉl),^[3] has been variously translated as "he wrestles with God", "he prevails with God",^[4] or "God rules" (possibly from the same root ש־ר־ה/ש־ר־ר as שָׂרָה (“Sarah”)).^[5]

Line 27 of the Merneptah Stele (from about 1200 B.C.E.) is thought to contain the earliest attestation of the name Israel in any language, Egyptian ysrjꜣr.

Doublet of Yisroel.

• enPR: ĭzʹrā-əl, ĭzʹrē-əl; IPA^(key): /ˈɪz.ɹeɪ.əl/, /ˈɪz.ɹi.əl/

  (US) enPR: ĭzʹrāl; IPA^(key): /ˈɪz.ɹeɪl/

  (formal and posh RP) enPR: ĭzʹrā-ĕl; IPA^(key): /ˈɪz.ɹeɪ.ɛl/

  (in singing also) enPR: ĭzʹrī-ĕl; IPA^(key): /ˈɪz.ɹaɪ.ɛl/

  (certain Carolina accents) IPA^(key): /ˈɪz.ɹɛəl/

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Israel (countable and uncountable, plural Israels)

2. A country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Official name: State of Israel.
   • 2023 October 18, “We’re anti-Zionist Jews and we see genocide unfolding in Gaza”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     Representative Nancy Pelosi, our California congresswoman, has affirmed that the United States stands “unwaveringly” by Israel as it conducts its defense […]

4. (biblical) 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.
6. (historical) An ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel.
8. (historical) An ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah.
9. (historical, Judaism, liturgical, otherwise now proscribed or offensive) The Jews as a people, taken collectively.
   • 2024 August 24 (last accessed), My Jewish learning, The Shema‎^[3]:

     Hear O’ Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One

   • 2024 August 24 (last accessed), My Jewish learning, The Shema‎^[4]:

     For our ancestors, for us, for our children, for every generation of the people Israel, for all ages from the first to the last, His teachings are true, everlasting.

10. A male given name from Hebrew.
    1. Another name for Jacob, notably after Genesis 32:28 and in later references.
       • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 32:28:

         And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

11. A surname.
13. A barangay of Imelda, Zamboanga Sibugay, Philippines.

    Synonym: Balian Israel — old name

    • 2015 June, “The Municipality of Imelda receives checks for the completion of their water system project”, in DILG IX‎^[5]:

      These are intended for the completion of the Construction of Level II Water System Project for barangays Mt. View, Little Baguio and Israel under the BuB-Water and Construction of Brgy. Bulongisan-Canaan Level II Water Supply under the SALINTUBIG Program.

• (region): The use of Israel to refer to the region between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea in a non-historical sense is (since the latter half of the 20th century) politically charged; indeed, this is true of all terms for this region.

• (State of Israel): the State of Israel (official name), Israhell (derogatory), Jewsrael (derogatory), Zionistan (derogatory), Isn'treal (derogatory), Zionist entity (derogatory)
• (Land of Israel): the Land of Israel, Palestine, the Holy Land, Canaan
• (the Jews): the Children of Israel, the Israelites, Jewry, Zion

• Israelite
• Israelitic
• Israelitish

• → Japanese: イスラエル (Isuraeru)

• Appendix:Countries of the world

• Irving (surname used to anglicize Israel)
• Zion, Judea

• Israel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Ariels, Lieras, serial, serail, railes, resail, Sal Rei, ariels, Realis, sailer, Isreal, relais, Alires, Sailer, realis

Inherited from Dutch Israël, from Middle Dutch israel, from Old Dutch israel, from Latin Isrāēl, from Ancient Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ (Isrāḗl), from Biblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל.

Israel

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• IPA^(key): /israˈel/ [iz.raˈel]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: Is‧ra‧el

Israel m

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• israelín

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [iz.rəˈɛl]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [iz.raˈɛl]

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Israel m

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
2. a male given name, equivalent to English Israel

• israelià

Israel

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

Israel

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

Israel

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• israeler
• israelsk

• israelit
• israelitisk

From Biblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él).

• IPA^(key): /ˈisrɑel/, [ˈis̠rɑ̝e̞l]
• Rhymes: -isrɑel
• Syllabification^(key): Is‧ra‧el
• Hyphenation^(key): Is‧ra‧el

Israel

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• israelilainen

• laseri

• Israël (obsolete)

Latin Israel, Ancient Greek Ἰσραήλ (Israḗl)

• IPA^(key): [ˈiːsʁaeːl]
• IPA^(key): [ˈɪsʁaeːl] (less common)

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• Hyphenation: Is‧ra‧el

Israel

1. (biblical) Israel, another name of the patriarch Jacob
   • 1912, Lutherbibel 1912, 1.Mose 32, 29 (Luther Bible 1912, Genesis 32:29):

     Er sprach: Du sollst nicht mehr Jakob heißen, sondern Israel; denn du hast mit Gott und mit Menschen gekämpft und bist obgelegen.

     And he said: Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Israel n (proper noun, genitive Israels or (optionally with an article) Israel)

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean; official name: Staat Israel)

• “Israel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Israel” in Duden online

Borrowed from Brazilian Portuguese Israel.

• IPA^(key): /israˈeːl/
• Rhymes: -eːl
• Syllabification: Is‧ra‧el

Israel n

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “Israel”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 83, column 2

Borrowed from English Israel.

• IPA^(key): /israel/

Israel

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

Israel

1. Israeli

From Dutch Israël, from Middle Dutch israel, from Old Dutch israel, from Latin Isrāēl, from Ancient Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ (Isrāḗl), from Biblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל. Doublet of Israil.

• IPA^(key): [ɪsˈrael]
• Hyphenation: Is‧ra‧él

Israel

1. Israel:
   1. a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean
   2. (biblical) 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
   3. (historical) an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel
   4. (historical) an ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah
   5. the Jews, taken collectively

      Synonym: Yahudi

• “Israel” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

• IPA^(key): /israˈel/

Israel

1. (all senses) Israel

• Isrāhēl, Isdrāhēl, Istrāhēl
• Israël

Borrowed from Koine Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ (Isrāḗl), from Biblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yiśrāʾēl). The spelling Istrāhēl, from Ἰστρᾱήλ (Istrāḗl), was predominant until the dissemination of Jerome’s Vulgate (5th century CE), which popularized Isrāhēl. The h was gradually lost thereafter.^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪsˈraː.eːɫ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [isˈraː.el]

Isrāēl m sg (genitive Isrāēl or Isrāēlis); indeclinable, variously declined, third declension

1. (Late Latin, Ecclesiastical Latin) Israel, another name of the patriarch Jacob
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Genesis.32.28:

     At ille: Nequaquam, inquit, Iacob appellabitur nomen tuum, sed Israhel: quoniam si contra Deum fortis fuisti quanto magis contra homines praevalebis.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. (New Latin) Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

Indeclinable noun or third-declension noun, singular only.

• “Israel”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Israel

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• israeler
• israelsk

• israelitt
• israelittisk

Israel

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• israelar
• israelsk

• israelitt
• israelittisk

• Irael, Irrael, Isrrael, Jsrrael, Yrrael, Ysrael

Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin Israel, borrowed from Koine Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ (Isrāḗl), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל.

Israel m

1. (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)
2. (biblical) Israel (another name for Jacob)

• Galician: Israel
• Portuguese: Israel (see there for further descendants)

• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “[ijys?r+ael]”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Israel n

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Israel, borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin Israel, borrowed from Koine Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ (Isrāḗl), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל.

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -ɛl, (Brazil) -ɛw
• Hyphenation: Is‧ra‧el

Israel m (plural Israéis)

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean; official name: Estado de Israel)
2. (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)
3. a male given name, equivalent to English Israel

Israel is never indicated by an article; see usage notes for Portugal.

• → Hunsrik: Israel

Borrowed from Hebrew ישראל.

• IPA^(key): /is.ra.ˈel/

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Israel n

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• IPA^(key): /israˈel/ [iz.raˈel]

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• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: Is‧ra‧el ~ [is.r̥a'el]

Israel m

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
2. Jacob
   • 1602, Casiodoro de Reina, La Santa Biblia, rev., Genesis 32:28

     Y él dijo: No se dirá más tu nombre Jacob, sino Israel: porque has peleado con Dios y con los hombres, y has vencido.

     And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

     (KJV)

3. a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Israel

• liarse, raíles

• IPA^(key): /²iːsˌrɛːl/

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• Hyphenation: Is‧rael

Israel n (genitive Israels)

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• israel
• israelit

• Israel in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• Svensk MeSH

Borrowed from Spanish Israel (“Israel”), from Latin Israel, from Ancient Greek Ἰσραήλ (Israḗl), from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él, “Israel”).

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ʔisɾaˈʔel/ [ʔɪs.ɾɐˈʔɛl]
• Rhymes: -el
• Syllabification: Is‧ra‧el

Israél (Baybayin spelling ᜁᜐ᜔ᜇᜁᜎ᜔)

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
2. (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)
3. a male given name, equivalent to English Israel

• “Israel”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Latin Israel, from Koine Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ (Isrāḗl), from Biblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yiśrāʾēl).

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɪsraɨ̯l/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈɪzrai̯l/

Israel f

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)

• Gwladwriaeth Israel (“State of Israel”)
• Israelaidd (“Israeli”, adjective)
• Israeliad (“Israelite; Israeli”, noun)