Meaning of Isra-eyl

[Paul Younan]

Huh - there it is in CAL, too. I thought only we Assyrians used it, but apparently it's got a pretty wide usage.....

)sr V
011 passim to bind
012 Palestinian to prohibit
013 Syr to bewitch, to cast a spell
014 Syr to gird
015 Syr to gather
016 Syr to join (grammatical)
017 Syr to be girt with
018 Syr to vow abstinence
019 JBA to check diarrhea
020 JBA to forbid
041 Palestinian to be prohibited
042 Syr to be bound
043 Syr to be joined
044 Syr to be closed
045 JBA to be forbidden
LS2 37
J 98
LS2 v: )esar

Akhi Gentile - I don't think it's possible for the Aramaic spelling for "Israel" to mean bind. The word is spelled A-Y-S-R-A-Y-L, and the portion A-Y-S-R-A is the relevent part. It contains a Yudh.

I think it's just the phonetic spelling of the Hebrew Yisra-El. (Yisra being the imperfect of the verb esar meaning "struggle~wrestle" - in Aramaic this would be Nisra-el).