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israelites

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for israelites.

Editorial note

Everyone knows that Pharaoh and his army were on horses as they chased Moses and the Israelites seaward.

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Quick take

a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group consisting of tribes that inhabited much of Canaan during the Iron Age.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of israelites gathered in one view.

N

a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group consisting of tribes that inhabited much of Canaan during the Iron Age.

N

an extinct genus of ammonoid from the Triassic period.

N

"Israelites" is a song written by Desmond Dekker and Leslie Kong for their group, Desmond Dekker & the Aces, which reached the top of the charts in numerous countries in 1969.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for israelites.

N

a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group consisting of tribes that inhabited much of Canaan during the Iron Age.

N

an extinct genus of ammonoid from the Triassic period.

N

"Israelites" is a song written by Desmond Dekker and Leslie Kong for their group, Desmond Dekker & the Aces, which reached the top of the charts in numerous countries in 1969.

Example sentences

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Everyone knows that Pharaoh and his army were on horses as they chased Moses and the Israelites seaward.

2

The Israelites were sheep herders trying to carve a niche in a dominant culture of pig and cattle herders.

3

These were (according to the tradition) the surviving tribe of the Israelites or People of Israel.

4

In modern Hebrew all but the most pedantic (and religious) will use Israelites interchangeably with Jews.

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The ancient Israelites originally believed in Sheol[0,1], an afterlife where everyone went, regardless of their morality.

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The chattel slavery incurred by the Israelites on foreign peoples was significant.

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After all, the pharoah (allegedly a god) refused to release the Israelites even after Moses told him God's will and performed miracles to prove it.

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Even worse, Israelites don't like American Jews (eg loud, vulgar and obnoxious), which is probably what this stereotypical and horribly simplistic description is based on.

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A huge chunk of the Old Testament is about how God had to keep sending prophets to tell the Israelites to stop worshipping other deities.

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The Israelites are likely descendants of the Canaanites.

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Without VC money you are pretty much a Moses with no israelites; you need people to be lost with you, and you also need people to see you part the sea.

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>If being Jewish is defined as genetically descending from the Israelites through the maternal line, then many Ashkenazi Jews fail the test, according to this data.

Quote examples

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By "fellow Israelites," you actually mean adult male Israelites in clean legal standing.

2

To extract monies for Israelites and to justify the ethnic cleansing and race replacement of Whites in Europe and western countries through the "asylum industry".

3

Please note that from the Torah part of the Tanakh, the provided interpretation of the word "brethren" is from fellow Israelites (but not the verse itself) [3].

4

Netanyahu had urged his citizens to remember “what Amalek did to you,” a quote many interpreted as a reference to the demand in a biblical passage calling for the Israelites to “kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings” of their ancient enemy.

Proper noun examples

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Yahweh was the national god of the Israelites, who were part of the Canaanite polytheistic system.

2

For fellow Israelites, it was typically a form of indentured servitude, often willingly entered into to pay off a debt.

3

Hebrews & Israelites, People of Israel, are as far a I know, used interchangeably in the old testament.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use israelites in a sentence?

Everyone knows that Pharaoh and his army were on horses as they chased Moses and the Israelites seaward.

What does israelites mean?

a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group consisting of tribes that inhabited much of Canaan during the Iron Age.

What part of speech is israelites?

israelites is commonly used as N.