Israel definition

(bible, person, proper) Jacob.

(proper) The Jewish people, as descendants of Jacob.

A male given name.

Israel are the Hebrew people descended from Jacob of the Bible.

(place) Ancient land of the Hebrews at the SE end of the Mediterranean.

The Land of Israel, a region that is roughly coextensive with the State of Israel.

(historical) A nation that occupied roughly the same area in ancient times.

(biblical) A name given to Jacob (Genesis 32:28).

(name, person, proper) A masculine name: dim. Izzy.

An ancient kingdom of Palestine. According to the Bible, it was founded by Saul (c. 1025 bc ), was greatly reduced in size when its southern part became the kingdom of Judah (c. 930), and was eventually overthrown by the Assyrians (c. 720).

Israel is a country between Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea.

(judaism) The Hebrew people, past, present, and future, regarded as the chosen people of God by virtue of the covenant of Jacob.

Jacob.

The descendants of Jacob.

A country of southwest Asia on the eastern Mediterranean Sea. It was established as a primarily Jewish state in 1948, largely along the lines of a United Nations partition plan for Palestine. Discord between Israel and neighboring Arab states led to numerous wars between 1948 and 1973. In the Six-Day War (1967) Israel occupied the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, and Jerusalem's Old City, annexing the latter two territories in 1980 and 1981. Israel returned Sinai to Egypt in 1982 and passed partial control of Gaza and the West Bank to the Palestinians by agreements signed in 1993 and 1994, but peace efforts were hampered by outbreaks of violence, by disagreement over the status of Jerusalem, and by the building of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories. Jerusalem is the capital.

(place) Kingdom in the N part of this region, formed (10th cent. b.c.) by the ten tribes of Israel that broke with Judah & Benjamin.

(place) Country between the Mediterranean Sea & Jordan: established (1948) as a Jewish state according to the United Nations plan (1947) partitioning Palestine into Arab and Jewish states: 8,019 sq mi (20,770 sq km); cap. Jerusalem.