Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /izraíl/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /izraíl/

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

Proper noun

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."

Inflection

The personal name rarely takes a definite article.

Derived terms

• Ἰσρᾱηλῑ́της ‎(Isrāēlī́tēs)

Descendants

• Greek: Ισραήλ ‎(Israíl)
• Latin: Isrāēl

References

• 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