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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 - “Your name will no longer be Jacob,” the man told him. “From now on you will be called Israel,[fn] because you have fought with God and with men and have won.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:32 - (Even today the people of Israel don’t eat the tendon near the hip socket because of what happened that night when the man strained the tendon of Jacob’s hip.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:20 - And there he built an altar and named it El-Elohe-Israel.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:7 - Meanwhile, Jacob’s sons had come in from the field as soon as they heard what had happened. They were shocked and furious that their sister had been raped. Shechem had done a disgraceful thing against Jacob’s family,[fn] something that should never be done.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:5 - As they set out, a terror from God spread over the people in all the towns of that area, so no one attacked Jacob’s family.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:10 - saying, “Your name is Jacob, but you will not be called Jacob any longer. From now on your name will be Israel.”[fn] So God renamed him Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:22 - While he was living there, Reuben had intercourse with Bilhah, his father’s concubine, and Jacob soon heard about it.
These are the names of the twelve sons of Jacob:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 36:31 - These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom before any king ruled over the Israelites[fn]:

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:2 - This is the account of Jacob and his family. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he often tended his father’s flocks. He worked for his half brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah. But Joseph reported to his father some of the bad things his brothers were doing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:13 - When they had been gone for some time, Jacob said to Joseph, “Your brothers are pasturing the sheep at Shechem. Get ready, and I will send you to them.”
“I’m ready to go,” Joseph replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:14 - “Go and see how your brothers and the flocks are getting along,” Jacob said. “Then come back and bring me a report.” So Jacob sent him on his way, and Joseph traveled to Shechem from their home in the valley of Hebron.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:5 - So Jacob’s[fn] sons arrived in Egypt along with others to buy food, for the famine was in Canaan as well.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:6 - “Why were you so cruel to me?” Jacob[fn] moaned. “Why did you tell him you had another brother?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:8 - Judah said to his father, “Send the boy with me, and we will be on our way. Otherwise we will all die of starvation—and not only we, but you and our little ones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 43:11 - So their father, Jacob, finally said to them, “If it can’t be avoided, then at least do this. Pack your bags with the best products of this land. Take them down to the man as gifts—balm, honey, gum, aromatic resin, pistachio nuts, and almonds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:21 - So the sons of Jacob[fn] did as they were told. Joseph provided them with wagons, as Pharaoh had commanded, and he gave them supplies for the journey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 45:28 - Then Jacob exclaimed, “It must be true! My son Joseph is alive! I must go and see him before I die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:1 - So Jacob[fn] set out for Egypt with all his possessions. And when he came to Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father, Isaac.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:2 - During the night God spoke to him in a vision. “Jacob! Jacob!” he called.
“Here I am,” Jacob replied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:5 - So Jacob left Beersheba, and his sons took him to Egypt. They carried him and their little ones and their wives in the wagons Pharaoh had provided for them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:8 - These are the names of the descendants of Israel—the sons of Jacob—who went to Egypt: Reuben was Jacob’s oldest son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:29 - Joseph prepared his chariot and traveled to Goshen to meet his father, Jacob. When Joseph arrived, he embraced his father and wept, holding him for a long time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 46:30 - Finally, Jacob said to Joseph, “Now I am ready to die, since I have seen your face again and know you are still alive.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - Meanwhile, the people of Israel settled in the region of Goshen in Egypt. There they acquired property, and they were fruitful, and their population grew rapidly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:29 - As the time of his death drew near, Jacob[fn] called for his son Joseph and said to him, “Please do me this favor. Put your hand under my thigh and swear that you will treat me with unfailing love by honoring this last request: Do not bury me in Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:31 - “Swear that you will do it,” Jacob insisted. So Joseph gave his oath, and Jacob bowed humbly at the head of his bed.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:2 - When Joseph arrived, Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to see you.” So Jacob[fn] gathered his strength and sat up in his bed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:8 - Then Jacob looked over at the two boys. “Are these your sons?” he asked.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:10 - Jacob was half blind because of his age and could hardly see. So Joseph brought the boys close to him, and Jacob kissed and embraced them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:11 - Then Jacob said to Joseph, “I never thought I would see your face again, but now God has let me see your children, too!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:13 - Then he positioned the boys in front of Jacob. With his right hand he directed Ephraim toward Jacob’s left hand, and with his left hand he put Manasseh at Jacob’s right hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - But Jacob crossed his arms as he reached out to lay his hands on the boys’ heads. He put his right hand on the head of Ephraim, though he was the younger boy, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, though he was the firstborn.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:20 - So Jacob blessed the boys that day with this blessing: “The people of Israel will use your names when they give a blessing. They will say, ‘May God make you as prosperous as Ephraim and Manasseh.’” In this way, Jacob put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:21 - Then Jacob said to Joseph, “Look, I am about to die, but God will be with you and will take you back to Canaan, the land of your ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:2 - “Come and listen, you sons of Jacob;
listen to Israel, your father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:7 - A curse on their anger, for it is fierce;
a curse on their wrath, for it is cruel.
I will scatter them among the descendants of Jacob;
I will disperse them throughout Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:16 - “Dan will govern his people,
like any other tribe in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:24 - But his bow remained taut,
and his arms were strengthened
by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob,
by the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:2 - Then Joseph told the physicians who served him to embalm his father’s body; so Jacob[fn] was embalmed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:25 - Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear an oath, and he said, “When God comes to help you and lead you back, you must take my bones with you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:1 - These are the names of the sons of Israel (that is, Jacob) who moved to Egypt with their father, each with his family:

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - But their descendants, the Israelites, had many children and grandchildren. In fact, they multiplied so greatly that they became extremely powerful and filled the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:9 - He said to his people, “Look, the people of Israel now outnumber us and are stronger than we are.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:12 - But the more the Egyptians oppressed them, the more the Israelites multiplied and spread, and the more alarmed the Egyptians became.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:13 - So the Egyptians worked the people of Israel without mercy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:11 - Many years later, when Moses had grown up, he went out to visit his own people, the Hebrews, and he saw how hard they were forced to work. During his visit, he saw an Egyptian beating one of his fellow Hebrews.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:23 - Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:25 - He looked down on the people of Israel and knew it was time to act.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:9 - Look! The cry of the people of Israel has reached me, and I have seen how harshly the Egyptians abuse them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 3:10 - Now go, for I am sending you to Pharaoh. You must lead my people 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

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38. LOAD PAGE 38 Jer 12:14–Jer 48:13

39. LOAD PAGE 39 Jer 48:27–Eze 12:10

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43. LOAD PAGE 43 Hos 5:3–Amo 7:11

44. LOAD PAGE 44 Amo 7:15–Mal 4:4

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