Definition of Israelites

1. Noun. The ethnic group claiming descent from Abraham and Isaac (especially from Isaac's son Jacob); the nation whom God chose to receive his revelation and with whom God chose to make a covenant (Exodus 19).

Exact synonyms: Hebrews
Category relationships: Old Testament
Generic synonyms: Ethnic Group, Ethnos, Chosen People

Definition of Israelites

1. Noun. (plural of Israelite) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Israelites

Isospora canis
Isospora felis
Isospora rivolta
Isospora suis
Ispir
Israel
Israel Baline
Israel Israeli
Israel Zangwill
Israeli
Israeli Defense Force
Israeli Sign Language
Israeli monetary unit
Israelis
Israelite
Israelites (current term)
Israelitess
Israelitesses
Israelitic
Issa
Issachar
Issas
Issue
Issus
Istanbul
Istanbul twist
Istanbulite
Isthmian Games
Isthmus-Mecayapan Nahuatl
Isthmus Zapotec

Literary usage of Israelites

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1864)
"Between the Israelites and the Amorites. The latter under the command of Silion, their king, ... Three thousand of the Israelites defeated by the men of Ai. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"It was from this side that the Israelites first attempted the entry into the Promised Land; and here they again encountered the ..."

3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"How the nations, with whom the Israelites were to have war, were divers ways, as it were, prepared to be their enemies. IN like manner if we look to the ..."

4. A Short View of the Whole Scripture History: With a Continuation of the by Isaac Watts, Richard Cunningham Shimeall (1831)
"PART I. From the departure of the Israelites from Egypt, to the giving of the law at ... How great was the number of the Israelites that went out of Egypt ? ..."

5. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1826)
"The Constitution of the Reformed Society of Israelites, for promoting true ... It has, until lately, been supposed, that the minds of Israelites were so ..."

6. Biblical Researches in Palestine, and in the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson (1874)
"We read, that there were six hundred thousand men of the Israelites above twenty years of age, who left Egypt on foot.3 There must of course have been as ..."

7. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"MARRIAGE AND KINSHIP AMONG THE ANCIENT Israelites. BY COLOM i AB ELLIS. IN the article on Polyandry which appeared in The Popular Science Monthly for ..."

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