Israel
ישראל (Yisrael)
- Akko (עֵכּוׂ) : Acre
- Ariha/Yeriho (יְרִיחוׂ / ٲرݐحا) : Jericho
- Ashqelon (אֵשֶׁקְלוׂן) : Ashkelon
- Beit Lahm/Bet Lehem (בֵּית לׇהׇם / بݐت لحم) : Bethlehem
- Ha-Galil (הגליל) : Galilee
- Kafar Nahum (כְּפֵר נֵהוּם) : Capernaum
- Natzrat (נֶצְרֵת) : Nazareth
- Qeisari (קֵיסֶריֶה) : Caesarea
- Tverya (טְבֶריֶה) : Tiberias
- Yafo (יֶפוׂ) : Jaffa
- Yehudah (יהודח) : Judea
- Yerushalayim (יְרוּשֶׁלֵיִם) : Jerusalem
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Famous quotes containing the word israel:
“For in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a ruler over every people; but Israel is the Lord’s portion: whom, being his firstborn, he nourisheth with discipline, and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him. Therefore all their works are as the sun before him, and his eyes are continually upon their ways.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 17:17-9.
“Who is the LORD, that I should heed him and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Exodus 5:2.
Pharaoh.
“We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people—the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)