Israelites
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈɪzreɪəlaɪts/
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israelita
- The Conquest began with the Israelites crossing the Jordan River.
- the ancient Israelites
- the Israelites worship
The promised land that the Israelites were called to was the land of Canaan.
- The promised land that the Israelites were called to was the land of Canaan.
- And this is likened to the victorious Israelites looking back to the Red Sea during the Exodus.
- Tell them he told Moses as he was going back to free the Israelites.
- When God gave Moses the commandment to go out there and lead the Israelites, did He tell them how long it was going to take?
- It's very clearly described in that incident in the Red Sea that what guided the Israelites through the desert, through Sinai, was a pillar.
- And the history of the Jewish people has been various efforts, you know, to try to dispossess the Israelites and the Jewish people from their ancestral homeland.
- And this is where you have slavery for Israelites essentially outlawed.
- But The funny thing about the story is that the Israelites were slaves in Egypt, OK?
- And Doug and I, according to Barry Weiss, made some excellent Israelites as Moses and his wife.
- It's like we didn't, but they'll say that like the real Israelites were black.
- So Jewish apocalypticists often will how will shift Israelites eschatology.
- They're like, what is how did the Israelites get to Egypt?
- And so the fulfillment of what God did with the Israelites is Christianity came out of that.
- You know we Israelites by ethnicity.
- I believe that when Moses fed mana to the Israelites, there was there was fungus in that mana.
Examples
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God, having asked Moses to free the Israelites...
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The Israelites were led by Moses to escape slavery in Egypt.
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You must do your part, just as the Israelites did, and the Lord will be with you.
Fiction book (1991) -
The God of the Israelites.
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So we're following the story of the Israelites getting out of Egypt.
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The promised land that the Israelites were called to was the land of Canaan.
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So in in the story of Exodus, the Israelites are lost in the desert.
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There were two great armies assembled, the Israelites and the Philistines.
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It's very clearly described in that incident in the Red Sea that what guided the Israelites through the desert, through Sinai, was a pillar.
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It was Ramses ll whose soldiers were drowned in the Red Sea while chasing Moses and the Israelites.
Synonyms
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7.5
A group of people who believe God selected them for a special purpose
A group of ancient people descended from Abraham who are the ancestors of the Jewish people
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Israelites comes from the Hebrew name Israel, a name that likely means 'he struggles with God'. The ending -ites marks a group of people, so Israelites simply means 'people of Israel' and refers to the ancient Hebrew nation descended from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the Bible.