Definition of israels:
(n) :
A country in Western Asia in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean. Official name: State of Israel.
(n) :
(biblical) A Biblical region of Western Asia roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel, known in the Bible as the Land of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people.
(n) :
(poetic, liturgical) The Jews as a people, taken collectively.
(n) :
Another name for Jacob, notably after Genesis 32:28 and in later references.
(n) :
(historical) An ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel.
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(historical) An ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah.