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# יִשְׂרָאֵל

Biblical Aramaic

**Israel** — used 8 times in the Aramaic chapters of the Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Israel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c2_5e8_5b8_5d0_5b5_5dc/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יִשְׂרָאֵל: n.pr.gent. Israel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c2_5e8_5b8_5d0_5b5_5dc/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. Israel (BH id., √ I. שָׂרָה);—אֱלַהּ יִשׁ׳ Ezr 5:1; 6:14; 7:15; מֶלֶךְ לְיִשׂ׳ 5:11; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ 6:16, עַמָּא יִשׂ׳ 7:13.

### Jastrow 1903

יִשְׂרָאֵל: Israel an Israelite Jew an Israelitish woman [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c2_5e8_5b8_5d0_5b5_5dc/#m3)

**The whole Jastrow entry:** Israel. I. (Jacob), the patriarch. Gen. R. s. 68 י׳ סבא the patriarch I. the patriarch I. (not the people); a. fr. I., the people. Ber. 6ᵃ; a. fr.—שונאי י׳ the enemies of Israel, often euphem. for Israel. Ib. 32ᵃ נתמוטטו … של ש׳ י׳ the feet of Israel would totter (in judgment); a. fr.—V. כְּנֶסֶת. י׳ (= בן י׳) an Israelite, a) one not belonging to the priestly or levitic tribe; b) a Jew, opp. נכרי, גוי. Gitt. V, 8. Tosef. Kidd. V, 3; a. fr.—Tosef. Ab. Zar. III, 5, sq. Ab. Zar. II, 6; a. fr.—בַּת י׳ an Israelitish woman. Tosef. l. c. 1; 3; a. fr.—Pl. יִשְׂרְאֵלוֹת (opp. to כַּהֲנוֹת, לְוִיּוֹת). Tosef. Snh. IV, 2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates); Jastrow: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of Israel (5); Israel (3).

## In the verses

[Ezra 6:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.6.16/#tree)

וַעֲבַ֣דוּ בְנֵֽי־יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל כָּהֲנַיָּ֨א וְלֵוָיֵ֜א וּשְׁאָ֣ר בְּנֵי־גָלוּתָ֗א חֲנֻכַּ֛ת בֵּית־אֱלָהָ֥א דְנָ֖ה בְּחֶדְוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and they.made the.people of.Israel the priests and the Levites and the.rest of.the.people of the.exile the.dedication of.the.house of.(the) God this with joy

*JPS 1917:* And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

[Ezra 7:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.7.15/#tree)

וּלְהֵיבָלָ֖ה כְּסַ֣ף וּדְהַ֑ב דִּֽי־מַלְכָּ֣א וְיָעֲט֗וֹהִי הִתְנַדַּ֙בוּ֙ לֶאֱלָ֣הּ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל דִּ֥י בִֽירוּשְׁלֶ֖ם מִשְׁכְּנֵֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* and to carry silver and gold which the king and counselors his they.have.offered.freely to the.God of.Israel who \[is\].in Jerusalem abode his

*JPS 1917:* and to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,

## In Targum Onkelos

Number 11 of the commonest words of Targum Onkelos, the Aramaic translation of the Torah: used 593 times there, in the forms יִשְׂרָאֵל (520); דְיִשְׂרָאֵל (40); בְּיִשְׂרָאֵל (21); לְיִשְׂרָאֵל (7); וְיִשְׂרָאֵל (2).

[Numbers 21:31](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.31/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.21.31/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

וִיתֵב יִשְׂרָאֵל בַּאֲרַע אֱמוֹרָאָה

וַיֵּ֙שֶׁב֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּאֶ֖רֶץ הָאֱמֹרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and it.dwelt Israel in the.land of the.Amorite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

[Exodus 12:47](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.47/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.12.47/#tree) · Onkelos, then the Hebrew

כָּל כְּנִשְׁתָּא דְיִשְׂרָאֵל יַעְבְדוּן יָתֵהּ:

כָּל־עֲדַ֥ת יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יַעֲשׂ֥וּ אֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* all the.congregation of.Israel they.will.do it

*JPS 1917:* All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Biblical Aramaic dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/aramaic/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c2_5e8_5b8_5d0_5b5_5dc.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/aramaic/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b4_5e9_5b0_5c2_5e8_5b8_5d0_5b5_5dc/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).