ISRAEL
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Etymology
ISRAEL, the other name of JACOB and the northern kingdom of the ISRAELITES, does not refer to a person or place in the Book of Mormon. The Hebrew name יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisraʾel may mean "God fights; rules; shines; heals" (HALOT s.v. ISRAEL). ISRAEL may also be mentiioned in the Merneptah Stele 1.27, where we read that "Israel (EGYPTIAN I.si.ri.ʾar, with foreign person/people determinative) is laid waste (EGYPTIAN fk.t) and his seed is not,"[1] although it may also refer to another people or place.
Variants
Deseret Alphabet: 𐐆𐐞𐐡𐐈𐐇𐐢 (ɪzræɛl) (1 Nephi 5:9), 𐐈𐐞𐐡𐐈𐐇𐐢 (æzræɛl) (2 Nephi 9:23), 𐐌𐐞𐐡𐐈𐐇𐐢 (aɪzræɛl) (2 Nephi 25:4)
Notes
- ↑ W.M. Flinders Petrie and Wilhelm Spiegelberg, Six Temples at Thebes: 1896 (London: Quaritch, 1897); cf. Dermot Nestor, Cognitive Perspective on Israelite Identity (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1998), 96-97.
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