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Ἰσραηλίτας (Israelitas)

Ἰσραηλίτας is an Ancient Greek form of Ἰσραηλῖται, meaning “Israelitai — the Israelites”. It is the accusative plural noun or adjective.

Found 42 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 2.204: καὶ τετρακοσίων μὲν ἐτῶν χρόνον διήνυσαν ταῖς ταλαιπωρίαις· ἀντεφιλονείκουν γὰρ οἱ μὲν Αἰγύπτιοι τοῖς πόνοις ἐξαπολέσαι τοὺς Ἰσραηλίτας θέλοντες, οἱ δʼ ἀεὶ κρείττους φαίνεσθαι τῶν ἐπιταγμάτων.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.