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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 2,507 times in 2,231 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 15 / 45 (Jdg 4:5–Jdg 11:13)

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel H3478 came up to her for judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel H3478 commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:23 - So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:24 - And the hand of the children of Israel H3478 prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:2 - Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, H3478 when the people willingly offered themselves.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3 - Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:5 - The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, H3478 until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - They chose new gods; then was war in the gates: was there a shield or spear seen among forty thousand in Israel? H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9 - My heart is toward the governors of Israel, H3478 that offered themselves willingly among the people. Bless ye the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: H3478 then shall the people of the LORD go down to the gates.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:1 - And the children of Israel H3478 did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2 - And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: H3478 and because of the Midianites the children of Israel H3478 made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - And so it was, when Israel H3478 had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, H3478 neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6 - And Israel H3478 was greatly impoverished because of the Midianites; and the children of Israel H3478 cried unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:7 - And it came to pass, when the children of Israel H3478 cried unto the LORD because of the Midianites,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - That the LORD sent a prophet unto the children of Israel, H3478 which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, H3478 I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - And the LORD looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel H3478 from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - And he said unto him, Oh my Lord, wherewith shall I save Israel? H3478 behold, my family is poor in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36 - And Gideon said unto God, If thou wilt save Israel H3478 by mine hand, as thou hast said,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:37 - Behold, I will put a fleece of wool in the floor; and if the dew be on the fleece only, and it be dry upon all the earth beside, then shall I know that thou wilt save Israel H3478 by mine hand, as thou hast said.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:2 - And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel H3478 vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:8 - So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel H3478 every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:14 - And his fellow answered and said, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: H3478 for into his hand hath God delivered Midian, and all the host.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:15 - And it was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation thereof, that he worshipped, and returned into the host of Israel, H3478 and said, Arise; for the LORD hath delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:23 - And the men of Israel H3478 gathered themselves together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after the Midianites.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:22 - Then the men of Israel H3478 said unto Gideon, Rule thou over us, both thou, and thy son, and thy son's son also: for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:27 - And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel H3478 went thither a whoring after it: which thing became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:28 - Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, H3478 so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:33 - And it came to pass, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel H3478 turned again, and went a whoring after Baalim, and made Baalberith their god.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:34 - And the children of Israel H3478 remembered not the LORD their God, who had delivered them out of the hands of all their enemies on every side:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 8:35 - Neither shewed they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, namely, Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shewed unto Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:22 - When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel, H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:55 - And when the men of Israel H3478 saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:1 - And after Abimelech there arose to defend Israel H3478 Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he dwelt in Shamir in mount Ephraim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:2 - And he judged Israel H3478 twenty and three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:3 - And after him arose Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel H3478 twenty and two years.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:6 - And the children of Israel H3478 did evil again in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:7 - And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, H3478 and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:8 - And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: H3478 eighteen years, all the children of Israel H3478 that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:9 - Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel H3478 was sore distressed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:10 - And the children of Israel H3478 cried unto the LORD, saying, We have sinned against thee, both because we have forsaken our God, and also served Baalim.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:11 - And the LORD said unto the children of Israel, H3478 Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:15 - And the children of Israel H3478 said unto the LORD, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:17 - Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. And the children of Israel H3478 assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpeh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:4 - And it came to pass in process of time, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:5 - And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, H3478 the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:13 - And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel H3478 took away my land, when they came up out of Egypt, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and unto Jordan: now therefore restore those lands again peaceably.

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