Israel.
Israel (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean; official name: Estado de Israel)
Meaning & usage
Israel (a country in Western Asia in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean; official name: Estado de Israel)
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)
a male given name, equivalent to English Israel
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese Israel, a learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin Israel, borrowed from Koine Greek Ἰσρᾱήλ (Isrāḗl), borrowed from Biblical Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל.
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