Caravaggio, Saint Jerome Writing (c. 1605), Galleria Borghese. Public domain.
10 verses in the King James Version. Word study for “israel” →
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Brethren, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.
But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
