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Meaning of Isra-eyl
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shlomo oh Gentile,

Gentile Wrote:Yes, this is my point. Hence my
understanding that Beny Israel is not a race/tribe.

If you were to say "Beny Israel" in Lebanon, people would understand it as you saying "the people of Israel" or if you add the Lebanese word "men", then it becomes "a descendant of someone from Israel".

The following passages should clarify it. I quoted the RSV, and I translated the same passages from POT.

Here's an interesting OT passage that I found on RSV:
Genesis, chapter 35
9: God appeared to Jacob again, when he came from Paddan-aram, and blessed him.
10: And God said to him, "Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name." So his name was called Israel.
11: And God said to him, "I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall come from you, and kings shall spring from you.
12: The land which I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give the land to your descendants after you."

From POT
9:And manifested again God upon Jacob while he came from the plough of Aram, and blessed him.
10: And God said to him, do not call again your name Jacob but your name will be Israel, and his name was called Israel.
11: And God said to him, I Am God El-Shadday (The God of the Mountains), multiply and be many, a people and an assembly of nations from you will turn out, and kings from you will cast out.
12: And the land which we swore to Abraham and Issac, to you I will give, and to your seed from after you I will give the land.

poosh bashlomo,
keefa-moroon
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Meaning of Isra-eyl - by Gentile - 06-11-2004, 10:13 AM
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