Crossword clues for israelite
israelite
- Joseph, for one
- Hebrew of old
- Old covenant keeper
- A person belonging to the worldwide group claiming descent from Jacob (or converted to it) and connected by cultural or religious ties
- A native or inhabitant of the ancient kingdom of Israel
- A descendant of Jacob
- One translation of earliest ancient Hebrew
- One of OT people in one location holding unfortunate king back
- Old person realities sent off the rails
- Harsh realities for a citizen of ancient kingdom
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Israelite \Is"ra*el*ite\, n. [L. Isra["e]lites, Gr. ?, fr. ?, ?, Israel, Heb. Yisr[=a][=e]l, i. e., champion of God; s[=a]r[=a]h to fight + [=e]l God.] A descendant of Israel, or Jacob; a Hebrew; a Jew.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "one of the people of ancient Israel," from Latin israelita, from Greek Israelites, from Israel (see Israel). The Middle English adjective was Israelish (Old English Israelisc), sometimes Israelitish.\n
Usage examples of "israelite".
This command was given immediately after the defeat of the Amalekites near Horeb, and before the arrival of the Israelites at Mount Sinai.
He married women from the very nations God told the Israelites to destroy: Edomites, Hittites, Amorites, Egyptians.
Israelites during their bondage in Egypt, but in this case the bricks were probably sun-dried only, and not burnt.
The second Lokman, also called the Sage, was a slave and Abyssinian negro, sold by the Israelites during the reign of David or Solomon, and who left a volume of proverbs and exempla, not fables or apologues, some of which still dwell in the public memory.
A fortnight after Easter I was delivered from my troublesome Israelite, and the poor devil instead of being sent back to his home had to spend two years in The Fours, and on his gaining his freedom he went and set up in Trieste, where he ended his days.
The Israelites belonged to the same race as the hated Hyksos or Shepherd Kings.
He was instrumental in publishing the name and greatness of the Israelitish prophets and he proved to the world that the Israelites constituted the people of God.
Israelites, but wild Arabs, a branch of the Kenite tribe, which claimed - at least its chiefs - to be descended from Abraham, by his wife Keturah.
Israelite Yahweh, whom he invoked to protect his flocks, the Philistine Ashtoreth, whom he entreated to send him comely and compliant maidens, and the Midianite Sin, who, though a moon god, seemed to be good for luck in general.
The language of the place was a dialect of the same tongue which was spoken on Crete, in Philistia, and by the Israelites.
The Israelite survival through the desert is marked by Sukkoth, a celebration dating back over three thousand years.
In deserts with never a tramline to follow by, The Israelite horde went roaming abroad Like so many sundowners out on the wallaby.
In Hebrew, for the Israelites of antiquity, yetzer ha-tov was the Advocate and yetzer ha-ru was the Accuser.
He may have dreaded, likewise, lest they should give way to that same luxury and profligacy in which the Israelites indulged - and especially lest they should be demoralized by that drunkenness of which the prophets speak, as one of the crying sins of that age.
Lord, to thy flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made one fold under one shepherd, Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end.