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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 885 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISRAEL (
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Hebrew for "
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God strives " or " rules "; see Gen. xxxii. 28; and the allusion in
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Hosea xii. 4)  , the
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national designation of the
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Jews .
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Israel was a name
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borne by their ancestor
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Jacob the
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father of the twelve tribes . For some centuries the
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term was applied to the
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northern
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kingdom, as distinct from
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Judah, although the feeling of national unity extended it so as to include both . It emphasizes more particularly the position of the
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Hebrews as a religious community,
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bound together by
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common aims and by their
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covenant-relation with the national
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God, Yahweh . See further JACOB,
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HEBREW
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LANGUAGE, HEBREW
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RELIGION, JEWS:
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History and
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Palestine .

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