以色列 — meaning in English
Yǐ sè liè
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English meaning
- Israel name A country in the Middle East on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, established as a modern state in 1948.
Senses
以色列 is used for these senses in English:
- Israel (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.
Israel — full definition
- name A country in the Middle East on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea, established as a modern state in 1948.
- name In the Bible, the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people, and another name given to the patriarch Jacob.