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Lexicon :: Strong's G2474 - israēl

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Ἰσραήλ
Transliteration
israēl (Key)
Pronunciation
is-rah-ale'
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Of Hebrew origin יִשְׂרָאֵל (H3478)
mGNT
68x in 2 unique form(s) TR
70x in 2 unique form(s) LXX
2,461x in 1 unique form(s)
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TDNT Reference: 3:356,372

Strong’s Definitions

Ἰσραήλ Israḗl, is-rah-ale'; of Hebrew origin (H3478); Israel (i.e. Jisrael), the adopted name of Jacob, including his descendants (literally or figuratively):—Israel.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 70x

The KJV translates Strong's G2474 in the following manner: Israel (70x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 70x
The KJV translates Strong's G2474 in the following manner: Israel (70x).

  1. Israel = "he shall be a prince of God"

    1. the name given to the patriarch Jacob (and borne by him in addition to his former name)

    2. the family or descendants of Israel, the nation of Israel

    3. Christians, the Israel of God (Gal 6:16), for not all those who draw their bodily descent from Israel are true Israelites, i.e. are those whom God pronounces to be Israelites and has chosen to salvation

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
Ἰσραήλ Israḗl, is-rah-ale'; of Hebrew origin (H3478); Israel (i.e. Jisrael), the adopted name of Jacob, including his descendants (literally or figuratively):—Israel.
STRONGS G2474:
Ἰσραήλ (Josephus, Ἰσραηλος, Ἰσραηλου), ὁ, indeclinable, (יִשְׂרָאֵל, from שָׂרָה and אֵל, wrestler with God, Genesis 32:28; Hosea 12:4, cf. Genesis 35:10), Israel, a name given to the patriarch Jacob (and borne by him in addition to his former name from Genesis 32:28 on): ὁ οἶκος Ἰσραήλ, the family or descendants of Israel, the race of Israel (A. V. the house of Israel), Matthew 10:6; Matthew 15:24; Acts 7:42 (Exodus 16:31; 1 Samuel 7:2, and often); οἱ υἱοί Ἰσραήλ the (sons, i. e. the children, the) posterity of Israel, Luke 1:16; Acts 5:21; Acts 7:23, 37; Romans 9:27; αἱ φυλαί τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, Matthew 19:28; Luke 22:30; Revelation 7:4. By metonymy, for the posterity of Israel i. e. the Israelites (a name of especially honor because it made reference to the promises of salvation through the Messiah, which were given to Jacob in preference to Esau, and to be fulfilled to his posterity (see Ἰουδαῖος, b.)): Matthew 2:6; Matthew 8:10; Matthew 9:33; Luke 1:54, 68, 80; Acts 4:8 (R G); Ephesians 2:12; Romans 11:2, 7, 26, etc. (Exodus 5:2; Exodus 11:7, and often); ὁ λαός Ἰσραήλ, Acts 4:10, 27; γῆ Ἰσραήλ i. e. Palestine ((1 Samuel 13:19, etc.)), Matthew 2:20f; βασιλεύς Ἰσραήλ, Matthew 27:42; John 1:49 (50); ἡ ἐλπίς τοῦ Ἰσραήλ Acts 28:20; ὁ Ἰσραήλ τοῦ Θεοῦ (genitive of possession), i. e. Christians, Galatians 6:16; ὁ Ἰσραήλ κατά σάρκα, Israelites by birth, i. e. Jews, 1 Corinthians 10:18; in an emphatic sense, οὐ γάρ πάντες οἱ ἐξ Ἰσραήλ κτλ., for not all those that draw their bodily descent from Israel are true Israelites, i. e. are those whom God pronounces to be Israelites and has chosen to salvation, Romans 9:6.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
32:28; 32:28; 35:10
Exodus
5:2; 11:7; 16:31
1 Samuel
7:2; 13:19
Hosea
12:4
Matthew
2:6; 2:20; 8:10; 9:33; 10:6; 15:24; 19:28; 27:42
Luke
1:16; 1:54; 1:68; 1:80; 22:30
John
1:49
Acts
4:8; 4:10; 4:27; 5:21; 7:23; 7:37; 7:42; 28:20
Romans
9:6; 9:27; 11:2; 11:7; 11:26
1 Corinthians
10:18
Galatians
6:16
Ephesians
2:12
Revelation
7:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2474 matches the Greek Ἰσραήλ (israēl),
which occurs 2,461 times in 2,185 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 44 (Gen 32:28–Exo 3:10)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:28 - Then he said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel,[fn] for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob’s hip on the sinew of the thigh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:20 - There he erected an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - The sons of Jacob had come in from the field as soon as they heard of it, and the men were indignant and very angry, because he had done an outrageous thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing must not be done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - And as they journeyed, a terror from God fell upon the cities that were around them, so that they did not pursue the sons of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:10 - And God said to him, “Your name is Jacob; no longer shall your name be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name.” So he called his name Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:31 - These are the kings who reigned in the land of Edom, before any king reigned over the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father’s wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - And Israel said to Joseph, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flock at Shechem? Come, I will send you to them.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - So he said to him, “Go now, see if it is well with your brothers and with the flock, and bring me word.” So he sent him from the Valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - Thus the sons of Israel came to buy among the others who came, for the famine was in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:6 - Israel said, “Why did you treat me so badly as to tell the man that you had another brother?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - And Judah said to Israel his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will arise and go, that we may live and not die, both we and you and also our little ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - Then their father Israel said to them, “If it must be so, then do this: take some of the choice fruits of the land in your bags, and carry a present down to the man, a little balm and a little honey, gum, myrrh, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:21 - The sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the command of Pharaoh, and gave them provisions for the journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - And Israel said, “It is enough; Joseph my son is still alive. I will go and see him before I die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - So Israel took his journey with all that he had and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:2 - And God spoke to Israel in visions of the night and said, “Jacob, Jacob.” And he said, “Here I am.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - Then Jacob set out from Beersheba. The sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons that Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:8 - Now these are the names of the descendants of Israel, who came into Egypt, Jacob and his sons. Reuben, Jacob’s firstborn,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 46:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:29 - Then Joseph prepared his chariot and went up to meet Israel his father in Goshen. He presented himself to him and fell on his neck and wept on his neck a good while.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:30 - Israel said to Joseph, “Now let me die, since I have seen your face and know that you are still alive.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - Thus Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen. And they gained possessions in it, and were fruitful and multiplied greatly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - And when the time drew near that Israel must die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If now I have found favor in your sight, put your hand under my thigh and promise to deal kindly and truly with me. Do not bury me in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:31 - And he said, “Swear to me”; and he swore to him. Then Israel bowed himself upon the head of his bed.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:2 - And it was told to Jacob, “Your son Joseph has come to you.” Then Israel summoned his strength and sat up in bed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:8 - When Israel saw Joseph’s sons, he said, “Who are these?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:10 - Now the eyes of Israel were dim with age, so that he could not see. So Joseph brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:11 - And Israel said to Joseph, “I never expected to see your face; and behold, God has let me see your offspring also.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13 - And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel’s left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel’s right hand, and brought them near him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:20 - So he blessed them that day, saying,
“By you Israel will pronounce blessings, saying,
‘God make you as Ephraim and as Manasseh.’” Thus he put Ephraim before Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:21 - Then Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:2 - “Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob,
listen to Israel your father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:7 - Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce,
and their wrath, for it is cruel!
I will divide them in Jacob
and scatter them in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 - “Dan shall judge his people
as one of the tribes of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:24 - yet his bow remained unmoved;
his arms[fn] were made agile
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob
(from there is the Shepherd,[fn] the Stone of Israel),

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:2 - And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father. So the physicians embalmed Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:1 - These are the names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his household:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - But the people of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly; they multiplied and grew exceedingly strong, so that the land was filled with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - And he said to his people, “Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:12 - But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:13 - So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:11 - One day, when Moses had grown up, he went out to his people and looked on their burdens, and he saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his people.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:23 - During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:25 - God saw the people of Israel—and God knew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:9 - And now, behold, the cry of the people of Israel has come to me, and I have also seen the oppression with which the Egyptians oppress them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:10 - Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

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34. LOAD PAGE 34 Ezr 10:10–Psa 81:13

35. LOAD PAGE 35 Psa 83:4–Isa 10:20

36. LOAD PAGE 36 Isa 10:22–Isa 45:15

37. LOAD PAGE 37 Isa 45:17–Jer 11:17

38. LOAD PAGE 38 Jer 12:14–Jer 48:13

39. LOAD PAGE 39 Jer 48:27–Eze 12:10

40. LOAD PAGE 40 Eze 12:19–Eze 25:8

41. LOAD PAGE 41 Eze 25:14–Eze 39:22

42. LOAD PAGE 42 Eze 39:23–Hos 5:1

43. LOAD PAGE 43 Hos 5:3–Amo 7:11

44. LOAD PAGE 44 Amo 7:15–Mal 4:4

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