Israel . What's the original and correct pronunciation of the Jewish ?

Question

I mean how Jewish pronounce it 2000 years ago .

I mean the word : ISRAEL .

Answer 1

"Israel" (pronounced IZ-reel) is the Anglicized version. The Hebrew itself has NEVER been pronounced that way. If you look at a transcription directly from the Hebrew word, it will usually be written thus:
Yisra'el

This is pronounced as a three syllable word:

yiss- rah- 'ALE

Please remember the "y-" at the beginning. Note also that the last syllable begins with a sign marked here as ' -- this stands for the Hebrew letter aleph, which is a glottal stop, roughly the sound you usually make at the beginning of a word that starts with a vowel sound. (If you just say "at" you may hear a little 'catch in the throat' at the beginning of the word.) So, to make that sound when pronouncing the name, STOP the breath in between the a and e.

Though it is impossible to know EXACTLY how Jewish speakers would have sounded saying this 2000 years ago, the pronunciation above is reasonably close.

Answer 2

Yisrael

Yiss-rah-ell

Answer 3

The pronunciation of the word "Israel" hasn't changed, but in Hebrew you pronounce it "I-ss-ra-el" not "I-z-ra-el".

Answer 4

I don't think hebrew has changed all that much in 2000 years.