ysrjꜣr

Egyptian

Etymology

If the term means Israel, as is considered most likely, then borrowed from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrāʾēl). (However, alternative readings have sometimes been proposed, such as Jezreel.)

Pronunciation

Proper noun

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  1. a demonym; probably the Israelites, Israel
    • c. 1208 B.C.E., Merneptah Stele, Line 27:












      ysrjꜣr fkt bn prt.f
      Israel is laid waste, and he has no seed.

References

  • “Yzrꜣr (lemma ID 859140)”, in Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae‎[1], Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.5, Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning by order of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils by order of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig, 2004–26 July 2023
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