Ísrael

See also: israel, Israel, Israèl, İsrael, and Israël

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiːsra(ː)(ˌ)ɛːl/

  Rhymes: -ɛːl

Proper noun

Ísrael m (genitive Ísraels)

1. Israel (name given to Jacob)
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. (historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel)
4. (historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah)

Declension

declension of Ísrael

m-s1	singular
	indefinite
nominative	Ísrael
accusative	Ísrael
dative	Ísrael
genitive	Ísraels

Proper noun

Ísrael n (genitive Ísraels, or indeclinable)

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

Synonyms

• Ísraelsríki

Derived terms

• Ísraeli
• ísraelskur
• Ísraelsmaður