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Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

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יִשְׂרָאֵל
Transliteration
yiśrā'ēl
Pronunciation
yis-raw-ale'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x

The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 2,505x
The KJV translates Strong's H3478 in the following manner: Israel (2,489x), Israelites (16x).
  1. Israel = "God prevails"

    1. the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel

    2. the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob

      1. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

      2. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

      3. the name of the nation after the return from exile

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl, yis-raw-ale'; from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.
STRONGS H3478: Abbreviations
יִשְׂרָאֵל 2507 proper name, masculine and of a people Israel (Ēl persisteth, persevereth (or jussive Let Ēl persist) [usually contendeth (NesEg.60 ff.) or Let Ēl contend (GrayProp. N. 218), but see DrHast. DB JACOB 530]; on vocalization see LagBN 131 f. Kit 1 Chronicles 4:16 (Hpt); MI5, + 5 times ישראל; in Egyptian Y-si-r-'l SteindZAW xvi (1896), 331, compare BreastedBib. World ix (1897), 62 ff. PatonSyr. and Pal. 134; Assyrian Sir-'-lai (= יִשְׂרְאֵלִי) SchrKG 356 ff., 364; COT Genesis 36:31; 1 Kings 16:29. — On a possibly relation of יִשׂ׳ to proper name שָׂרַי, שָׂרָה see RSK 257, 2nd ed. 34; — compare שְׂרָיָה(וּ); — Ισραηλ:
1. proper name, masculine. second name of Jacob Genesis 32:29 + 28 times Genesis (JE), Exodus 32:13 (JE), Hosea 12:13; Judges 18:29; Exodus 6:14; Numbers 1:20; Numbers 26:5 (all P), 2 Kings 17:34; 1 Chronicles 1:34 + 8 times Chronicles, Psalm 105:23; בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Ruth 4:11; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (literal) Genesis 42:5 + 3 times E, + 2 times P + Exodus 1:7 (P; transition to wider use), 1 Kings 18:31; 1 Chronicles 2:1 +; = 12 tribes Exodus 28:9 + 7 times P; אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 18:36; 1 Chronicles 29:18; 2 Chronicles 30:6.
2. proper name, of a people (usually masculineJudges 11:17 f but feminine 1 Samuel 17:21; 2 Samuel 24:9 [not || 1 Chronicles 21:5], compare Dron the passage AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 57 f.): name of Hebrew nation; usually derived from 1, but יִשׂ׳ more common in early usage than בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (see בֵּן):
a.
(1) undivided kingdom; יִשׂ׳ Genesis 47:27 (J), Genesis 49:7 (poem in J) + 108 times J E, Deuteronomy 1:1; Deuteronomy 18:6; Deuteronomy 33:10 (poem) + 76 times D, Genesis 34:7; Exodus 12:15 + 42 times P; Judges 5:2, 7 (twice in verse) + 104 times Judges; often 1 and 2 Samuel; 1 Kings 1-12; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ of whole people 2 Samuel 8:15 +, of whole army 2 Samuel 11:1 +, opposed to Judah 2 Samuel 2:9 + (so also later).
(2) יִשׂ׳ = Northern tribes, distinguished from Judah, even before disruption, 2 Samuel 2:9, compare 2 Samuel 2:10; 2 Samuel 3:10; 2 Samuel 4:1; 2 Samuel 5:5; 2 Samuel 12:7; 2 Samuel 20:1; 1 Kings 1:35; 1 Kings 4:20; 1 Kings 5:5 +; so at disruption 1 Kings 12:16 (3 times in verse); 1 Kings 12:18, 19; then usually of Northern kingdom, till its fall, 1 Kings 12:28; 1Ki 24:7; 1Ki 24:10 + very often Kings, Amos 1:1; Amos 2:6; Amos 3:14 +, Hosea 1:5; Hosea 4:15 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:3 (twice in verse); Hosea 5:5 +, Micah 1:13, etc.
(3) יִשׂ׳ of Southern kingdom, Judah, rarely before fall of Samaria Isaiah 1:3; Isaiah 8:18; Micah 1:14, 15, so בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ 1 Kings 12:17; after fall of Samaria, יִשׂ׳ (less often בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳) occurs of entire people, in reference to past or future 2 Kings 21:8; 2 Kings 23:22; Isaiah 17:9; Psalm 103:7; Jeremiah 2:3; Jeremiah 50:17, 19 +; יִשׂ׳ also = Judah Jeremiah 2:14, 31; Jeremiah 4:1 +, Ezekiel 13:2, 4, 16; Ezekiel 14:1, 7, 9 +, Isaiah 40:27; Isaiah 41:8; Isaiah 42:24 +, Ezra 2:59 = Nehemiah 7:61; Ezra 2:70; Ezra 3:11 +, Nehemiah 10:34; Nehemiah 10:3 +, Psalm 14:7 (twice in verse) = Psalm 53:7 [Psalm 53:6] (twice in verse), Psalm 147:2; Psalm 149:2 +, etc.
(4) usage in Chronicles: יִשׂ׳ of whole people 1 Chronicles 2:7 + 110 times, of Northern kingdom 2 Chronicles 11:1 + 16 times, of Judah 2 Chronicles 12:6; 19:8 + 9 times
(5) יִשׂ׳ personified as עֶבֶד י׳, Isaiah 44:1, 21; Isaiah 49:3.
b. בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳,
(1) of undivided people Exodus 1:12 (J), Exodus 3:9 (E) + 72 times J E, Deuteronomy 3:18; Deuteronomy 10:6 + 25 times D, Genesis 32:33 [Genesis 32:32] + 327 times P; Judges 1:1 + 60 times Judges; seldom 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Kings 1-12; in 1 Kings 13—2 Kings 25 passive in reference to older history (rarely otherwise).
(2) seldom of Northern kingdom Amos 2:11 + 9 times Amos, Hosea; 2 Chronicles 13:12 + 7 times Chronicles.
(3) of Judah (late) Ezekiel 2:3; Nehemiah 1:6 (twice in verse); Ezra 3:1; Joel 4:16 +, 2 Chronicles 31:5.
c. בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Exodus 16:31; Exodus 40:38 + 142 times (see בַּיִת 5d (δ); + 81 times Ezekiel, where = Judah; see especially Exodus 37:16); שְׁנֵי בָֽתֵּי יִשׂ׳ Isaiah 8:14.
d. other phrases, see sub אִישׁ, אֶרֶץ, בַּת, בְּתוּלָה, גְּבוּל, הַר, כִּסֵּא, מֶלֶךְ, (נטה) מַטֶּה, (יעד) עֵדָה, עַם, שֵׁבֶט; also (in epithet of י׳) below אָבִיר, אוֺר, אֱלֹחִים, I. גָּוֺאל, מֶלֶךְ, מִקְוֶה (I. קוה), I. צוּר (V. צור), קָדוֺשׁ, I. רָעָה 1d (3).
†e. יִשׂ׳ = the laity, opposed to priests, etc. (late): Ezra 10:25; Nehemiah 11:3; 1 Chronicles 9:2; כָּליִֿשׂ׳ Ezra 2:70; Ezra 10:5; הָעָם יִשׂ׳ Ezra 9:1; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 10:40, compare שְׁאָר יִשׂ׳ Nehemiah 11:20.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H3479.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

32:29; 32:32; 34:7; 36:31; 42:5; 47:27; 49:7

Exodus

1:7; 1:12; 3:9; 6:14; 12:15; 16:31; 28:9; 32:13; 37:16; 40:38

Numbers

1:20; 26:5

Deuteronomy

1:1; 3:18; 10:6; 18:6; 33:10

Judges

1:1; 5:2; 5:7; 11:17; 18:29

Ruth

4:11

1 Samuel

17:21

2 Samuel

2:9; 2:9; 2:10; 3:10; 4:1; 5:5; 8:15; 11:1; 12:7; 20:1; 24:9

1 Kings

1:35; 4:20; 5:5; 12:16; 12:17; 12:18; 12:19; 12:28; 16:29; 18:31; 18:36

2 Kings

17:34; 21:8; 23:22

1 Chronicles

1:34; 2:1; 2:7; 4:16; 9:2; 21:5; 29:18

2 Chronicles

11:1; 12:6; 13:12; 19:8; 30:6; 31:5

Ezra

2:59; 2:70; 2:70; 3:1; 3:11; 9:1; 10:5; 10:25

Nehemiah

1:6; 7:61; 10:3; 10:34; 11:3; 11:20

Psalms

14:7; 53:6; 103:7; 105:23; 147:2; 149:2

Isaiah

1:3; 8:14; 8:18; 17:9; 40:27; 41:8; 42:24; 44:1; 44:21; 49:3

Jeremiah

2:3; 2:14; 2:31; 4:1; 50:17; 50:19

Ezekiel

2:3; 13:2; 13:4; 13:16; 14:1; 14:7; 14:9

Hosea

1:5; 4:15; 5:3; 5:5; 12:13

Amos

1:1; 2:6; 2:11; 3:14

Micah

1:13; 1:14; 1:15

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3478 matches the Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrā'ēl),
which occurs 2,506 times in 2,231 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 18 / 45 (1Sa 5:10–1Sa 14:24)

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:10 - Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel H3478 to us, to slay us and our people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:11 - So they sent and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, H3478 and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not, and our people: for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:3 - And they said, If ye send away the ark of the God of Israel, H3478 send it not empty; but in any wise return him a trespass offering: then ye shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 6:5 - Wherefore ye shall make images of your emerods, and images of your mice that mar the land; and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: H3478 peradventure he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:2 - And it came to pass, while the ark abode in Kirjathjearim, that the time was long; for it was twenty years: and all the house of Israel H3478 lamented after the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:3 - And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, H3478 saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:4 - Then the children of Israel H3478 did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served the LORD only.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:5 - And Samuel said, Gather all Israel H3478 to Mizpeh, and I will pray for you unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:6 - And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the LORD, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the LORD. And Samuel judged the children of Israel H3478 in Mizpeh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:7 - And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel H3478 were gathered together to Mizpeh, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. H3478 And when the children of Israel H3478 heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:8 - And the children of Israel H3478 said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the LORD our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:9 - And Samuel took a sucking lamb, and offered it for a burnt offering wholly unto the LORD: and Samuel cried unto the LORD for Israel; H3478 and the LORD heard him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:10 - And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: H3478 but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:11 - And the men of Israel H3478 went out of Mizpeh, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:13 - So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: H3478 and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel H3478 were restored to Israel, H3478 from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel H3478 deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel H3478 and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:15 - And Samuel judged Israel H3478 all the days of his life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:16 - And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel H3478 in all those places.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:17 - And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; H3478 and there he built an altar unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:1 - And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:4 - Then all the elders of Israel H3478 gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:22 - And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, H3478 Go ye every man unto his city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:2 - And he had a son, whose name was Saul, a choice young man, and a goodly: and there was not among the children of Israel H3478 a goodlier person than he: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:9 - (Beforetime in Israel, H3478 when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:16 - To morrow about this time I will send thee a man out of the land of Benjamin, and thou shalt anoint him to be captain over my people Israel, H3478 that he may save my people out of the hand of the Philistines: for I have looked upon my people, because their cry is come unto me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:20 - And as for thine asses that were lost three days ago, set not thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel? H3478 Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 9:21 - And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjamite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel? H3478 and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? wherefore then speakest thou so to me?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:18 - And said unto the children of Israel, H3478 Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, H3478 I brought up Israel H3478 out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:20 - And when Samuel had caused all the tribes of Israel H3478 to come near, the tribe of Benjamin was taken.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:2 - And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, On this condition will I make a covenant with you, that I may thrust out all your right eyes, and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:3 - And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: H3478 and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out to thee.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:7 - And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel H3478 by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:8 - And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel H3478 were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:13 - And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 11:15 - And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel H3478 rejoiced greatly.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:1 - And Samuel said unto all Israel, H3478 Behold, I have hearkened unto your voice in all that ye said unto me, and have made a king over you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:1 - Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel, H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; H3478 whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:4 - And all Israel H3478 heard say that Saul had smitten a garrison of the Philistines, and that Israel H3478 also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were called together after Saul to Gilgal.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:5 - And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, H3478 thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Israel H3478 saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:13 - And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel H3478 for ever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:19 - Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: H3478 for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:20 - But all the Israelites H3478 went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:12 - And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armourbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will shew you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armourbearer, Come up after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:18 - And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:21 - Moreover the Hebrews that were with the Philistines before that time, which went up with them into the camp from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites H3478 that were with Saul and Jonathan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:22 - Likewise all the men of Israel H3478 which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:23 - So the LORD saved Israel H3478 that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:24 - And the men of Israel H3478 were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

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