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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

H3478

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Strong's Number H3478 matches the Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yiśrā'ēl),
which occurs 92 times in 87 verses in 'Isa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Isa 1:3–Isa 42:24)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:3 - The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel H3478 doth not know, my people doth not consider.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4 - Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel H3478 unto anger, they are gone away backward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 - Therefore saith the Lord, the LORD of hosts, the mighty One of Israel, H3478 Ah, I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:2 - In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:7 - For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, H3478 and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:19 - That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel H3478 draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:1 - And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, H3478 went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, H3478 for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:18 - Behold, I and the children whom the LORD hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel H3478 from the LORD of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:8 - The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12 - The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel H3478 with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:14 - Therefore the LORD will cut off from Israel H3478 head and tail, branch and rush, in one day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - And the light of Israel H3478 shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:20 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, H3478 and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, H3478 in truth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:22 - For though thy people Israel H3478 be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 - And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, H3478 and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:16 - And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel H3478 in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:6 - Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel H3478 in the midst of thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:1 - For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, H3478 and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:2 - And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel H3478 shall possess them in the land of the LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus, and the remnant of Syria: they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel, H3478 saith the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:7 - At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: H3478 and there shall be desolation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:24 - In that day shall Israel H3478 be the third with Egypt and with Assyria, even a blessing in the midst of the land:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:25 - Whom the LORD of hosts shall bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel H3478 mine inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:10 - O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, H3478 have I declared unto you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:17 - And the residue of the number of archers, the mighty men of the children of Kedar, shall be diminished: for the LORD God of Israel H3478 hath spoken it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:15 - Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel H3478 in the isles of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:6 - He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel H3478 shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall beat off from the channel of the river unto the stream of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:19 - The meek also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:23 - But when he seeth his children, the work of mine hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name, and sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall fear the God of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:11 - Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel H3478 to cease from before us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:12 - Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, H3478 Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:15 - For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; H3478 In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:29 - Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD, to the mighty One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:1 - Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, H3478 neither seek the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:6 - Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel H3478 have deeply revolted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:16 - O LORD of hosts, God of Israel, H3478 that dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth: thou hast made heaven and earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21 - Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent unto Hezekiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, H3478 Whereas thou hast prayed to me against Sennacherib king of Assyria:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:23 - Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:27 - Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, H3478 My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:8 - But thou, Israel, H3478 art my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:14 - Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; H3478 I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:16 - Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:17 - When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, I the God of Israel H3478 will not forsake them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:20 - That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand of the LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel H3478 hath created it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:24 - Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel H3478 to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

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