ארץ־ישׂראל

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Yiddish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Hebrew אֶרֶץ יִשְׂרָאֵל ('érets yisra'él), from אֶרֶץ ('érets, land) + יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él, Israel).

Proper noun[edit]

ארץ־ישׂראל (erets yisroel)

  1. (biblical) the Land of 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)

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