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  • proper noun A female Israelite.

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Examples

  • Hence we may conjecture what the condition of this adulteress was: either she was an Israelitess not yet married, but betrothed only; or else she was

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

  • First, it is said, he answered her not a word; then his disciples desired that he would send her away, that she might not trouble him any more; whereon he gives a reason why he would not regard her, or why he could justly pass her by; she was not an Israelitess, unto whom he was sent; -- yet she gives not over, but pressing into his presence, cries out for mercy, verse 25.

    Meditations and Discourses on the Glory of Christ 1616-1683 1965

  • And the high priest, besides all duties and privileges already mentioned as common to him and the ordinary priest, he must not marry a widow, nor a divorced woman, or a profane, or that had been a harlot, but a virgin Israelitess.

    Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker

  • -- went out among the children of Israel; and this son of the Israelitess and a man of Israel strove together in the camp;

    The Holy Bible: Darby Translation Anonymous 1867

  • Do we ever profane those days either of the sabbath, or Expiation, for any other than one born of an Israelitess only? "

    From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979

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