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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 4 / 45 (Exo 24:10–Exo 40:38)

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:10 - And they saw the God of Israel: H3478 and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:11 - And upon the nobles of the children of Israel H3478 he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 24:17 - And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 25:22 - And there I will meet with thee, and I will commune with thee from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubims which are upon the ark of the testimony, of all things which I will give thee in commandment unto the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:20 - And thou shalt command the children of Israel, H3478 that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:21 - In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:1 - And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, H3478 that he may minister unto me in the priest's office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron's sons.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:9 - And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel: H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:11 - With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: H3478 thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:12 - And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: H3478 and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:21 - And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, H3478 twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:29 - And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel H3478 in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:30 - And thou shalt put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim; and they shall be upon Aaron's heart, when he goeth in before the LORD: and Aaron shall bear the judgment of the children of Israel H3478 upon his heart before the LORD continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 28:38 - And it shall be upon Aaron's forehead, that Aaron may bear the iniquity of the holy things, which the children of Israel H3478 shall hallow in all their holy gifts; and it shall be always upon his forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:28 - And it shall be Aaron's and his sons' by a statute for ever from the children of Israel: H3478 for it is an heave offering: and it shall be an heave offering from the children of Israel H3478 of the sacrifice of their peace offerings, even their heave offering unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:43 - And there I will meet with the children of Israel, H3478 and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:45 - And I will dwell among the children of Israel, H3478 and will be their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:12 - When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel H3478 after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:16 - And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, H3478 and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel H3478 before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 30:31 - And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 saying, This shall be an holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:13 - Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, H3478 saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:16 - Wherefore the children of Israel H3478 shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 31:17 - It is a sign between me and the children of Israel H3478 for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, H3478 which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, H3478 which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:13 - Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, H3478 thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:20 - And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel H3478 drink of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:27 - And he said unto them, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, H3478 Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:5 - For the LORD had said unto Moses, Say unto the children of Israel, H3478 Ye are a stiffnecked people: I will come up into the midst of thee in a moment, and consume thee: therefore now put off thy ornaments from thee, that I may know what to do unto thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 33:6 - And the children of Israel H3478 stripped themselves of their ornaments by the mount Horeb.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:23 - Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord GOD, the God of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:27 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:30 - And when Aaron and all the children of Israel H3478 saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone; and they were afraid to come nigh him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:32 - And afterward all the children of Israel H3478 came nigh: and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:34 - But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel H3478 that which he was commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:35 - And the children of Israel H3478 saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:1 - And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel H3478 together, and said unto them, These are the words which the LORD hath commanded, that ye should do them.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:4 - And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 saying, This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:20 - And all the congregation of the children of Israel H3478 departed from the presence of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:29 - The children of Israel H3478 brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 35:30 - And Moses said unto the children of Israel, H3478 See, the LORD hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:3 - And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel H3478 had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:6 - And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold, graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:7 - And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; H3478 as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:14 - And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, H3478 twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:32 - Thus was all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation finished: and the children of Israel H3478 did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did they.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 39:42 - According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel H3478 made all the work.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:36 - And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel H3478 went onward in all their journeys:
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:38 - For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, H3478 throughout all their journeys.

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