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Israel is a Biblical
List of Biblical names

This is a list of names from the Bible, mainly taken from the 19th century public domain resource:Each name is given with its meaning. Please note that "names" refers to any noun, which may be: people, places, cities, countries, angels, gods, mountains, etc....
  given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
. The patriarch Jacob
Jacob

According to the Hebrew Bible, Jacob , also known as Israel , was the third Biblical patriarchs and the ancestor of the twelve Israelites....
 was given the name Israel (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
: ??????????, Standard
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
  Tiberian
Tiberian vocalization

Tiberian Hebrew is an extinct but very well documented oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew language, especially the Hebrew of the Tanakh, that was given written form by Masoretes scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias, in the early Middle Ages, beginning in the 8th century....
 ; "Struggled with God") after he wrestled with the angel The name already occurs in Eblaite and Ugaritic texts as a common name. Commentators differ on the original literal meaning. Some say the name comes from the verb sarar ("to rule, be strong, have authority over"), thereby making the name mean "God rules" or "God judges".






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Israel is a Biblical
List of Biblical names

This is a list of names from the Bible, mainly taken from the 19th century public domain resource:Each name is given with its meaning. Please note that "names" refers to any noun, which may be: people, places, cities, countries, angels, gods, mountains, etc....
  given name
Given name

A given name is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name ....
. The patriarch Jacob
Jacob

According to the Hebrew Bible, Jacob , also known as Israel , was the third Biblical patriarchs and the ancestor of the twelve Israelites....
 was given the name Israel (Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
: ??????????, Standard
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
  Tiberian
Tiberian vocalization

Tiberian Hebrew is an extinct but very well documented oral tradition of pronunciation for ancient Hebrew language, especially the Hebrew of the Tanakh, that was given written form by Masoretes scholars in the Jewish community at Tiberias, in the early Middle Ages, beginning in the 8th century....
 ; "Struggled with God") after he wrestled with the angel The name already occurs in Eblaite and Ugaritic texts as a common name. Commentators differ on the original literal meaning. Some say the name comes from the verb sarar ("to rule, be strong, have authority over"), thereby making the name mean "God rules" or "God judges". Other possible meanings include "the prince of God" (from the King James Version) or "El
El (god)

is the Northwest Semitic languages word for "deity" , cognate to Arabic and Akkadian .In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole, El or Il was the supreme god, the father of humankind and all creatures and the husband of the Goddess Asherah as attested in the tablets of Ugarit....
 fights/struggles". Jacob's descendants came to be known as the Israelites, eventually forming the tribes of Israel and ultimately the kingdom of Israel
Kingdom of Israel

The Kingdom of Israel was one of the successor states to the older United Monarchy . It existed roughly from the 930s BC until about the 720s BC....
.

In Israel the name "Israel Israeli
Israel Israeli

Israel Israeli is a placeholder name used in Israel in much the same manner as John Doe in the United States, Joe Bloggs in the United Kingdom, or Fulanito in Spain....
" is sometimes used to mean someone whose name is unknown or unspecified.

List of people named Israel


  • Israel of Axum
    Israel of Axum

    Israel was a king of Kingdom of Axum. He is primarily known through the coins minted during his reign.The Kebra Nagast and Ethiopian historical tradition states that Kaleb of Axum had two sons, Gabra Masqal and Israel....
    , Emperor of Ethiopia in the 6th century CE
  • Israel (Bishop of Caucasian Albania)
    Israel (Bishop of Caucasian Albania)

    Israel was the bishop of Caucasian Albania in the latter part of the seventh century. In 682 he led an unsuccessful delegation to convert Alp Iluetuer, the ruler of the North Caucasian Huns, to Christianity....
    , in the seventh century CE
  • Israel (singer)
    Israel (singer)

    Israel Cruz is an Australian R&B singer originally from the Philippines. At the age of thirteen he moved to Melbourne and while there he gathered inspiration to become an artist from listening to albums such as Ice Cube "The Predator"....
    , Australian singer
  • Israel Isidore Baline, Russian-American Jewish composer
  • Israel ben Eliezer, Polish rabbi
  • Israel Folau
    Israel Folau

    Israel Folau is an Australian professional rugby league footballer currently contracted with the Brisbane Broncos of the National Rugby League....
    , Australian rugby league footballer
  • Israel Houghton
    Israel Houghton

    Israel Houghton is a Grammy Award winning, Christian worship leader and singer, mostly known for his cross-cultural style of Christian music that fuses elements from Gospel music, Jazz and Rock ....
    , Christian worship leader
  • Israel Izzy Asper
    Izzy Asper

    Israel Harold "Izzy" Asper, Order of Canada, Queen's Counsel, Order of Manitoba , Canada tax lawyer and media magnate, was the founder of CanWest Global Communications Corp and father to current CEO and President Leonard Asper, current board of directors and corporate secretary Gail Asper, as well as Executive Vice President David Asper....
    , Canadian media magnate
  • Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
    Israel Kamakawiwo'ole

    Israel "Iz" Kaanoi Kamakawiwoole was a Hawaii musician.He became famous outside Hawaii when his album Facing Future was released in 1993 with his Medley of "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World", which was subsequently featured in several films, television programs, and Television advertisement....
    , Hawaiian singer
  • Israel Kirzner
    Israel Kirzner

    Israel Meir Kirzner is a leading economist in the Austrian School....
    , British-American economist
  • Israel of Krems
    Israel of Krems

    Israel of Krems was an Austria rabbi who flourished in the 14th and 15th centuries. He was the great-grandfather of Israel Isserlin, who quotes him in his commentary on Rashi to the Pentateuch, section "Waye?i." Israel was the author of Haggahot Asheri, notes on Rabbeinu Asher's Talmudic compendium, printed with the text....
    , 14th-15th century Austrian rabbi
  • Israel Machado
    Israel Machado

    Israel Machado Campelo Andrade is a former basketball player from Brazil. He represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984....
    , Brazilian basketball player
  • Israel Putnam
    Israel Putnam

    Israel Putnam was an American army general who fought with distinction at the Battle of Bunker Hill during the American Revolutionary War . Although Putnam never quite attained the national renown of more famous heroes such as Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone, in his own time his reckless courage and fighting spirit were known far beyond Con...
    , American general
  • Israel Regardie
    Israel Regardie

    Israel Regardie was one of the 20th century's most significant occultists and a renewer of occult literature....
    , British occultist
  • Israel Shahak
    Israel Shahak

    Israel Shahak , n? Himmelstaub, was a Poland-born Israel Professor of chemistry at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the former president of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights, and an outspoken critic of the Israeli government....
    , Israeli author
  • Israel Shamir
    Israel Shamir

    Israel Shamir is a writer and journalist who is known as a controversial anti-Zionism. He is a citizen of Sweden, where his legal name is Adam Ermash ....
    , Russian-Swedish anti-Zionist author and journalist
  • Israel Vázquez
    Israel Vázquez

    Israel V?zquez Casta?eda is a Mexican professional boxer. He is the current The Ring Super Bantamweight champion after being stripped of his WBC Super Bantamweight championship for being inactive after a retina surgery....
    , Mexican boxer


  • Menasseh ben Israel
    Menasseh Ben Israel

    Manoel Dias Soeiro , better known by his Hebrew language name Menasseh Ben Israel , was a Spanish and Portuguese Jews rabbi, Kabbalah, scholar, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebrew printing press in Amsterdam in 1626....
    , 17th-century rabbi, scholar and printer


As a surname:
  • Dan Israel
    Dan Israel

    Dan Israel is a 15-year veteran singer-songwriter currently based in Minneapolis, who won Song of the Year in the 2005 Minnesota Music Awards. He led the folk-duo One Town Horse in Chicago in the late 1980s and early 1990s, went on to lead the more electrified folk-rockers Potter's Field in Austin, TX in the mid '90s , and finally relocate...
    , American songwriter and musician
  • Edward Israel
    Edward Israel

    Edward Israel was an astronomer and geographical pole explorer....
    , American astronomer and polar explorer
  • Elizabeth Israel
    Elizabeth Israel

    Mione Elizabeth George Israel, known as Elizabeth Israel or Ma Pampo later in life, died October 14, 2003, having in her last years been the focus of one of the most widely publicized longevity myths of recent years....
    , Dominican supercentenarian
  • Jonathan Israel
    Jonathan Israel

    Professor Jonathan Irvine Israel is Modern European History Professor in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Township, New Jersey, United States, and a writer on Netherlands history, the Age of Enlightenment and European Jewry....
    , British historian
  • Rinus Israël
    Rinus Israël

    Marinus David Isra?l is a former Netherlands football player, manager and currently scout.During his career he played for DWS , Feyenoord Rotterdam , Excelsior Rotterdam and PEC Zwolle ....
    , Dutch football (soccer) manager and former player
  • Steve Israel
    Steve Israel

    Steven Israel is an United States politician from the U.S. state of New York, currently representing the state's New York's 2nd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives....
    , United States congressman from New York