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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 7 / 45 (Num 8:16–Num 17:6)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:16 - For they are wholly given unto me from among the children of Israel; H3478 instead of such as open every womb, even instead of the firstborn of all the children of Israel, H3478 have I taken them unto me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:17 - For all the firstborn of the children of Israel H3478 are mine, both man and beast: on the day that I smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for myself.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:18 - And I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn of the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:19 - And I have given the Levites as a gift to Aaron and to his sons from among the children of Israel, H3478 to do the service of the children of Israel H3478 in the tabernacle of the congregation, and to make an atonement for the children of Israel: H3478 that there be no plague among the children of Israel, H3478 when the children of Israel H3478 come nigh unto the sanctuary.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:20 - And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 did to the Levites according unto all that the LORD commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel H3478 unto them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:2 - Let the children of Israel H3478 also keep the passover at his appointed season.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:4 - And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, H3478 that they should keep the passover.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:5 - And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:7 - And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering of the LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel? H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:10 - Speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 saying, If any man of you or of your posterity shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be in a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:17 - And when the cloud was taken up from the tabernacle, then after that the children of Israel H3478 journeyed: and in the place where the cloud abode, there the children of Israel H3478 pitched their tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:18 - At the commandment of the LORD the children of Israel H3478 journeyed, and at the commandment of the LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:19 - And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel H3478 kept the charge of the LORD, and journeyed not.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 9:22 - Or whether it were two days, or a month, or a year, that the cloud tarried upon the tabernacle, remaining thereon, the children of Israel H3478 abode in their tents, and journeyed not: but when it was taken up, they journeyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:4 - And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, H3478 shall gather themselves unto thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:12 - And the children of Israel H3478 took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:28 - Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel H3478 according to their armies, when they set forward.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:29 - And Moses said unto Hobab, the son of Raguel the Midianite, Moses' father in law, We are journeying unto the place of which the LORD said, I will give it you: come thou with us, and we will do thee good: for the LORD hath spoken good concerning Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:36 - And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:4 - And the mixt multitude that was among them fell a lusting: and the children of Israel H3478 also wept again, and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:16 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, H3478 whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tabernacle of the congregation, that they may stand there with thee.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:30 - And Moses gat him into the camp, he and the elders of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:2 - Send thou men, that they may search the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel: H3478 of every tribe of their fathers shall ye send a man, every one a ruler among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:3 - And Moses by the commandment of the LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:24 - The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel H3478 cut down from thence.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:26 - And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:32 - And they brought up an evil report of the land which they had searched unto the children of Israel, H3478 saying, The land, through which we have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great stature.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:2 - And all the children of Israel H3478 murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:5 - Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:7 - And they spake unto all the company of the children of Israel, H3478 saying, The land, which we passed through to search it, is an exceeding good land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:10 - But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory of the LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:27 - How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, H3478 which they murmur against me.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 14:39 - And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: H3478 and the people mourned greatly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 and say unto them, When ye be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:18 - Speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 and say unto them, When ye come into the land whither I bring you,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:25 - And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 and it shall be forgiven them; for it is ignorance: and they shall bring their offering, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD, and their sin offering before the LORD, for their ignorance:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:26 - And it shall be forgiven all the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 and the stranger that sojourneth among them; seeing all the people were in ignorance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:29 - Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, H3478 and for the stranger that sojourneth among them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:32 - And while the children of Israel H3478 were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 15:38 - Speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:2 - And they rose up before Moses, with certain of the children of Israel, H3478 two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly, famous in the congregation, men of renown:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:9 - Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel H3478 hath separated you from 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 unto them?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:25 - And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram; and the elders of Israel H3478 followed him.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:34 - And all Israel H3478 that were round about them fled at the cry of them: for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up also.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:38 - The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:40 - To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, H3478 that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:41 - But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel H3478 murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:2 - Speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers, of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods: write thou every man's name upon his rod.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:5 - And it shall come to pass, that the man's rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, H3478 whereby they murmur against you.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 17:6 - And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, H3478 and every one of their princes gave him a rod apiece, for each prince one, according to their fathers' houses, even twelve rods: and the rod of Aaron was among their rods.

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