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ISRAEL (Hebrew for " God strives " or...

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

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