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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.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 2,507 times in 2,231 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 7 / 45 (Num 8:16–Num 17:6)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16 - for they are wholly given to Me from among the sons of Israel. H3478 I have taken them for Myself instead of every first issue of the womb, the firstborn of all the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - “For every firstborn among the sons of Israel H3478 is Mine, among the men and among the animals; on the day that I struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - “But I have taken the Levites instead of every firstborn among the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - “I have given the Levites as [fn]a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the sons of Israel, H3478 to perform the service of the sons of Israel H3478 at the tent of meeting and to make atonement on behalf of the sons of Israel, H3478 so that there will be no plague among the sons of Israel H3478 by [fn]their coming near to the sanctuary.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - Thus did Moses and Aaron and all the congregation of the sons of Israel H3478 to the Levites; according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so the sons of Israel H3478 did to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - “Now, let the sons of Israel H3478 observe the Passover at its appointed time.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - So Moses [fn]told the sons of Israel H3478 to observe the Passover.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - They observed the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the LORD had commanded Moses, so the sons of Israel H3478 did.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - Those men said to him, “Though we are unclean because of the [fn]dead person, why are we restrained from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the sons of Israel?” H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, H3478 saying, ‘If any one of you or of your generations becomes unclean because of a dead [fn]person, or is on a distant journey, he may, however, observe the Passover to the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:17 - Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel H3478 would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel H3478 would camp.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:18 - At the [fn]command of the LORD the sons of Israel H3478 would set out, and at the [fn]command of the LORD they would camp; as long as the cloud settled over the tabernacle, they remained camped.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, [fn]the sons of Israel H3478 would keep the LORDS charge and not set out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Whether it was two days or a month or a year that the cloud lingered over the tabernacle, staying above it, the sons of Israel H3478 remained camped and did not set out; but when it was lifted, they did set out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:4 - “Yet if only one is blown, then the leaders, the heads of the [fn]divisions of Israel, H3478 shall assemble before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - and the sons of Israel H3478 set out on their journeys from the wilderness of Sinai. Then the cloud settled down in the wilderness of Paran.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:28 - [fn]This was the order of march of the sons of Israel H3478 by their armies as they set out.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:29 - Then Moses said to Hobab the son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law, “We are setting out to the place of which the LORD said, ‘I will give it to you’; come with us and we will do you good, for the LORD has [fn]promised good concerning Israel.” H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36 - When it came to rest, he said,
“Return, O LORD,
To the myriad thousands of Israel.” H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:4 - The rabble who were among them [fn]had greedy desires; and also the sons of Israel H3478 wept again and said, “Who will give us [fn]meat to eat?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:16 - The LORD therefore said to Moses, “Gather for Me seventy men from the elders of Israel, H3478 whom you know to be the elders of the people and their officers and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:30 - Then Moses [fn]returned to the camp, both he and the elders of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - “Send out for yourself men so that they may spy out the land of Canaan, which I am going to give to the sons of Israel; H3478 you shall send a man from each of their fathers’ tribes, every one a leader among them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran at the [fn]command of the LORD, all of them men who were heads of the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:24 - That place was called the valley of [fn]Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel H3478 cut down from there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - they proceeded to come to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the sons of Israel H3478 [fn]in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the congregation and showed them the fruit of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32 - So they gave out to the sons of Israel H3478 a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, “The land through which we have gone, in spying it out, is a land that devours its [fn]inhabitants; and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great size.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - All the sons of Israel H3478 grumbled against Moses and Aaron; and the whole congregation said to them, “Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! Or would that we had died in this wilderness!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:5 - Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces in the presence of all the assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:7 - and they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, H3478 saying, “The land which we passed through to spy out is an exceedingly good land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:10 - But all the congregation said to stone them with stones. Then the glory of the LORD appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:27 - “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who are grumbling against Me? I have heard the complaints of the sons of Israel, H3478 which they are [fn]making against Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:39 - When Moses spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, H3478 the people mourned greatly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel H3478 and say to them, ‘When you enter the land [fn]where you are to live, which I am giving you,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:18 - “Speak to the sons of Israel H3478 and say to them, ‘When you enter the land where I bring you,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:25 - ‘Then the priest shall make atonement for all the congregation of the sons of Israel, H3478 and they will be forgiven; for it was an error, and they have brought their offering, an offering by fire to the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their error.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:26 - ‘So all the congregation of the sons of Israel H3478 will be forgiven, with the alien who sojourns among them, for it happened to all the people through error.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:29 - ‘You shall have one law for him who does anything unintentionally, for him who is native among the sons of Israel H3478 and for the alien who sojourns among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 - Now while the sons of Israel H3478 were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the sabbath day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:38 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, H3478 and tell them that they shall make for themselves tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and that they shall put on the tassel of each corner a cord of blue.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:2 - and they rose up before Moses, [fn]together with some of the sons of Israel, H3478 two hundred and fifty leaders of the congregation, [fn]chosen in the assembly, men of renown.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:9 - is it [fn]not enough for you that the God of Israel H3478 has separated you from the rest of the congregation of Israel, H3478 to bring you near to Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister to them;
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:25 - Then Moses arose and went to Dathan and Abiram, with the elders of Israel H3478 following him,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - All Israel H3478 who were around them fled at their [fn]outcry, for they said, “The earth may swallow us up!”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:38 - “As for the censers of these [fn]men who have sinned at the cost of their lives, let them be made into hammered sheets for a plating of the altar, since they did present them before the LORD and they are holy; and they shall be for a sign to the sons of Israel.” H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:40 - as a [fn]reminder to the sons of Israel H3478 that no [fn]layman who is not of the [fn]descendants of Aaron should come near to burn incense before the LORD; so that he will not become like Korah and his company—just as the LORD had spoken to him [fn]through Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:41 - But on the next day all the congregation of the sons of Israel H3478 grumbled against Moses and Aaron, saying, “You are the ones who have caused the death of the LORDS people.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:2 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, H3478 and get from them a rod for each father’s household: twelve rods, from all their leaders according to their fathers’ households. You shall write each name on his rod,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:5 - “It will come about that the rod of the man whom I choose will sprout. Thus I will lessen from upon Myself the grumblings of the sons of Israel, H3478 who are grumbling against you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:6 - Moses therefore spoke to the sons of Israel, H3478 and all their leaders gave him a rod apiece, for each leader according to their fathers’ households, twelve rods, with the rod of Aaron among their rods.

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