Ἰσραηλίτης
Israelite
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Vocative
- The case of direct address (“O Lord”).
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2475 appears in the Book of Acts — 5 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
- Acts 2:22 Ἰσραηλεῖται n voc pl masc "Men of Israel, hear these words! Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved by God to you by mighty works and wonders and signs which God did by him in the midst of you, even as you yourselves know,
- Acts 3:12 Ἰσραηλεῖται n voc pl masc When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, "You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
- Acts 5:35 Ἰσραηλεῖται n voc pl masc He said to them, "You men of Israel, be careful concerning these men, what you are about to do.
- Acts 13:16 Ἰσραηλεῖται n voc pl masc Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, "Men of Israel, and you who fear God, listen.
- Acts 21:28 Ἰσραηλεῖται n voc pl masc crying out, "Men of Israel, help! This is the man who teaches all men everywhere against the people, and the law, and this place. Moreover, he also brought Greeks into the temple, and has defiled this holy place!"
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Israelite” is the headline sense of the Greek name Ισραηλιτης (Israēlítēs). More than half of its appearances fall in Acts. The Greek New Testament uses it across 9 verses — uncommon. First canonically at John 1:48, it enters the text early. See 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2475 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 4 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 4 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,140
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,140 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 9 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 5 verses · 56%
- Pauline corpus 3 verses · 33%
- Gospels 1 verse · 11%
- Johannine 1 verse · 11%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Israel 5×, Israelite 2×, Israelites 2×
- American Standard Version: Israel 5×, Israelite 2×, Israelites 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Israel 6×, Israelite 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Israelites 7×, Israelite 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2475 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2475 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2475 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2475 across 10 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- an Israelite, one of the nation of Israel, a name to be held in honour
Word origin
Derived from Ισραηλ (Israḗl) (G2474) — Israel.
From G2474 ; an israelite that is descendant of Israel (literally or figuratively): - Israelite.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms G2475 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ἰσραηλεῖται Israēleîtai | Noun, Vocative, Plural, Masculine | Acts 2:22 | 6 |
| Ἰσραηλείτης Israēleítēs | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | John 1:48 | 2 |
| Ἰσραηλεῖταί Israēleîtaí | Noun, Nominative, Plural, Masculine | 2 Corinthians 11:22 | 1 |
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Israelite). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(descendant of Israel). In (2 Samuel 17:25) Ithra, the father of Amasa, is called "an Israelite," while in (1 Chronicles 2:17) he appears as "Jether the Ishmaelite." The latter is undoubtedly the true reading.
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word Ισραηλιτης appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 7 verses in 4 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 7
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 24:10 ἰσραηλίτης
- Numbers 25:8 ἰσραηλίτης
- 2 Samuel 17:25 ἰσραηλίτης
- Psalms 87:1 ἰσραηλίτης
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2475) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 24:10 ἰσραηλίτης The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
- Leviticus 24:11 ἰσραηλίτης The son of the Israelite woman blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. His mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.
- Numbers 25:8 ἰσραηλίτης and he went after the man of Israel into the pavilion, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her body. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
- Numbers 25:14 ἰσραηλίτης Now the name of the man of Israel that was slain, who was slain with the Midianite woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a fathers' house among the Simeonites.
- 2 Samuel 17:25 ἰσραηλίτης Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, who went in to Abigail the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab's mother.
- Psalms 87:1 ἰσραηλίτης His foundation is in the holy mountains.
- Psalms 88:1 ἰσραηλίτης Yahweh, the God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before you.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2475) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
