Israel denotes the people addressed as a collective community, and sometimes the land, cities, kingdom, or civic body associated with them.

The term most often identifies a collective people, appearing in expressions such as “sons,” “house,” “people,” and “tribes” of Israel and in statements addressed to or concerning that community. A smaller group of verses uses it for the sphere associated with that people, including cities, a kingdom, citizenship, and locations described as being “in Israel.”

1. The collective people and community · dominant

   The genitive form marks the community in expressions such as “sons of Israel,” “house of Israel,” and “people Israel.” In Acts 13:17 the APB renders God as choosing “this people Israel,” while Acts 2:36 addresses “all the house of Israel” and Matthew 19:28 speaks of “the twelve tribes of Israel.”

   Acts 13:17Acts 2:36Matthew 10:6Matthew 19:28Hebrews 8:10Romans 11:7
2. The land, civic body, or kingdom of that people · occasional

   In locative and relational clauses, the term denotes the setting or corporate sphere associated with the people. The APB renders Luke 4:25 with widows “in Israel,” Matthew 10:23 with “the cities of Israel,” Acts 1:6 with a kingdom restored “to Israel,” and Ephesians 2:12 with “the citizenship of Israel.”

   Luke 4:25Luke 7:9Matthew 10:23Acts 1:6Ephesians 2:12

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term directly as “Israel,” especially in phrases such as “sons of Israel,” “house of Israel,” and “people Israel.” It also uses it in location and institutional expressions such as “in Israel,” “kingdom to Israel,” and “citizenship of Israel”; these renderings reflect whole clauses rather than a word-by-word alignment.