Israel (name)

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Israel is a Christian and Jewish surname and male given name .

Origin and meaning

The name is first documented on the Merenptah stele as a national name and reflects the Canaanite form of the name at that time:

Jisra'el , Hebrew ישראל , is the biblical name of the ancestor Jacob (Jaakov) after the fight on the east bank of the river Jabbok . Then the name goes to the descendants of his twelve sons, founders of the twelve tribes of Israel ( people of Israel ). It can be translated as “God fights (for us)” or “God may fight (for us)” and “God rules” or “God may rule”.

In his third letter, Anthony the Great translated the name Israel as “understanding that sees God”.

For detailed onomatology see also the sections in Israel and Israelites .

During the time of National Socialism , the law on the change of family names and first names of January 5, 1938 forced Jewish men to also use the first name Israel and use it everywhere (women the name Sara ), unless they were one in the guidelines of the Reich Minister of the Inside had given names listed on the keeping of given names.

Name bearer

  • Jaakov Israel (~ 18th century BC), ancestor of the people of Israel, see Jacob

First name

family name

stage name

  • Dr. Israel , brgl. Douglas Bennett (* 1967), American musician

See also

credentials

  1. ↑ Real Lexicon of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology, Erich Ebling, Bruno Meissner and TUAT 1 old series, cf. also the Israel stele from Merenptah around 1208 BC BC, the Hebrew script developed later and reflects the already known name, cf. on this Harald Haarmann History of Scripture .
  2. ↑ Genesis, 32, 29
  3. ↑ Genesis, 35, 10

literature

See literature in the articles Israel , Israelites, and Twelve Tribes of Israel .

Web links

Wiktionary: Israel  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations