Children of Israel

بنى إسرائيل

Children of Israel (بنى إسرائيل) are mentioned in the Quran when referring to the Israelites. According to Islamic belief, the twelve tribes of Israel are the descendents of Yaqub (Jacob, also known as Israel), who was the son of Isaac.

Definitions are in English, as published by the Quranic Arabic Corpus.

Mentioned 41 times

Concept map

Tap any node to open it. Parent category above, related concepts beside, members and relations below.

is a kind ofLiving CreationSentient CreationHumanHistoric PeopleAadعادAnsarأنصارChildren of Israelبنى إسرائيلBedouinأعرابCompanions of the Caveأصحاب الكهفChildren of Israelبنو إسرائيل
categorymembersame categoryrelationThemes

Knowledge base

Sources: Tanzil (text, verbatim) · Quranic Arabic Corpus, © Kais Dukes, GNU GPL (morphology, syntax, word-by-word English, ontology) · Draft trees for 9:92 to 58: “Quranic” hybrid treebank, CC BY 4.0 · Translations: Pickthall (EN), Jalandhari (UR), via tanzil.net/trans · Themes: Quranpedia.net topics index (dump 2026-11-11) and classical tafsir citations · Indo-Pak text and font: DigitalKhatt (MIT, SIL OFL 1.1). Urdu word glosses are coming soon.