Israel

Person

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.25.26) referred to as Israel (Aramiac יִשְׂרָאֵל), or Jacob (יַעֲקֹב), or Jeshurun (יְשֻׁרוּן), or Israelite (יִשְׂרְאֵלִי), or Israelitess (יִשְׂרְאֵלִית), or Israel or Israelite (Ἰσραήλ), or Jacob (Ἰακώβ), or Israelite or Israel (Ἰσραηλίτης); son of Isaac and Rebekah; a brother of Esau; husband of Rachel and Leah, with concubines Zilpah and Bilhah; father of Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Dinah, Joseph and Benjamin.

Their thread through Scripture

Genesis 25:26
After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau’s heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.