イスラエル

Japanese

Etymology

Borrowed from English Israel.

Pronunciation

• (Tokyo) イスラエル [ìsúráꜜèrù] (Nakadaka – [3])
• IPA^(key): [isɨɾa̠e̞ɾɯ̟]

Proper noun

イスラエル • (Isuraeru) 

1. Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
2. (biblical) Israel (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)
3. (historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel)
4. (historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah)
5. (biblical) Israel (Jacob)
   • 1996 June 15 [1995 October 10], Narita, Minako, “ＳＣＥＮＥ.１　ミカエルという名(な)の生(い)き物(もの) [SCENE.1 A Living Namesake of Archangel Michael]”, in ＮＡＴＵＲＡＬ(ナチュラル), 3rd edition, volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Hakusensha, →ISBN, page 100:

     ミカエル（Ｍｉｃｈａｅｌ）
     ユダヤ教(きょう)・キリスト教(きょう)・イスラム教(きょう)の天(てん)使(し)の名(な)。旧(きゅう)約(やく)聖(せい)書(しょ)ではイスラエルの守(しゅ)護(ご)天(てん)使(し)とされ、新(しん)約(やく)聖(せい)書(しょ)ではサタンとの闘(たたか)いを指(し)揮(き)する
     その役(やく)割(わり)から武(ぶ)装(そう)した青(せい)年(ねん)の姿(すがた)をとって描(ねが)かれることが多(おお)い

     Mikaeru (Michael)
     Yudaya-kyō, Kirisuto-kyō, Isuramu-kyō no tenshi no na. Kyūyaku Seisho de wa Isuraeru no Shugo Tenshi to sare, Shin’yaku Seisho de wa Satan to no tatakai o shikisuru
     Sono yakuwari kara busōshita seinen no sugata o totte negakareru koto ga ōi

     Michael
     The name of an angel in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is regarded as the Guardian Angel of Israel as per the Old Testament, and he is said to have commanded the forces against Satan as per the New Testament
     As such, he is commonly depicted as an armed young man

See also

• イスラエル国(こく) (Isuraeru-koku)
• ヤコブ (Yakobu)