ETYMOLOGY, THE ROOT MEANING OF WORDS “Israelite” - mid-14c., "a Jew; one of the people of ancient Israel, a descendant of Israel or Jacob," Jacob and extended to his descendants, from sara "he fought, contended"
TIMOTHY’S FATHER WAS A GREEK (HELLEN), AN UNBELIEVING GREEK-SPEAKING ISRAELITE!…WAS FROM THE LYCAONIAN CITY OF LYSTRA OR OF DERBE IN ASIA MINOR…THE HOLY SEED!!🕎 Acts 16;1-24 a certain disciple named Timotheus, but his father was a Greek: