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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 186 times in 169 verses in 'Eze' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Eze 2:3–Eze 14:6)

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:3 - And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, H3478 to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:1 - Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, eat that thou findest; eat this roll, and go speak unto the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:4 - And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, H3478 and speak with my words unto them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:5 - For thou art not sent to a people of a strange speech and of an hard language, but to the house of Israel; H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:7 - But the house of Israel H3478 will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel H3478 are impudent and hardhearted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:17 - Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: H3478 therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:3 - Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:4 - Lie thou also upon thy left side, and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel H3478 upon it: according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:5 - For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 4:13 - And the LORD said, Even thus shall the children of Israel H3478 eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 5:4 - Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:2 - Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, H3478 and prophesy against them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:3 - And say, Ye mountains of Israel, H3478 hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:5 - And I will lay the dead carcases of the children of Israel H3478 before their idols; and I will scatter your bones round about your altars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:11 - Thus saith the Lord GOD; Smite with thine hand, and stamp with thy foot, and say, Alas for all the evil abominations of the house of Israel! H3478 for they shall fall by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 7:2 - Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; H3478 An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:4 - And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel H3478 was there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:6 - He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel H3478 committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:10 - So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, H3478 pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:11 - And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, H3478 and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 8:12 - Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel H3478 do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The LORD seeth us not; the LORD hath forsaken the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:3 - And the glory of the God of Israel H3478 was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8 - And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel H3478 in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:9 - Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel H3478 and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The LORD hath forsaken the earth, and the LORD seeth not.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:19 - And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate of the LORD'S house; and the glory of the God of Israel H3478 was over them above.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 10:20 - This is the living creature that I saw under the God of Israel H3478 by the river of Chebar; and I knew that they were the cherubims.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:5 - And the Spirit of the LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: H3478 for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:10 - Ye shall fall by the sword; I will judge you in the border of Israel; H3478 and ye shall know that I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:11 - This city shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; but I will judge you in the border of Israel: H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:13

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:13 - And it came to pass, when I prophesied, that Pelatiah the son of Benaiah died. Then fell I down upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou make a full end of the remnant of Israel? H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:15 - Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel H3478 wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:17 - Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 11:22 - Then did the cherubims lift up their wings, and the wheels beside them; and the glory of the God of Israel H3478 was over them above.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:6 - In their sight shalt thou bear it upon thy shoulders, and carry it forth in the twilight: thou shalt cover thy face, that thou see not the ground: for I have set thee for a sign unto the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:9 - Son of man, hath not the house of Israel, H3478 the rebellious house, said unto thee, What doest thou?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:10 - Say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house of Israel H3478 that are among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:19 - And say unto the people of the land, Thus saith the Lord GOD of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and of the land of Israel; H3478 They shall eat their bread with carefulness, and drink their water with astonishment, that her land may be desolate from all that is therein, because of the violence of all them that dwell therein.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:22 - Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, H3478 saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:23 - Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; H3478 but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:24 - For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 12:27 - Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel H3478 say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:2 - Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel H3478 that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the LORD;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:4 - O Israel, H3478 thy prophets are like the foxes in the deserts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:5 - Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel H3478 to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:9 - And mine hand shall be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies: they shall not be in the assembly of my people, neither shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel, H3478 neither shall they enter into the land of Israel; H3478 and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:16

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 13:16 - To wit, the prophets of Israel H3478 which prophesy concerning Jerusalem, and which see visions of peace for her, and there is no peace, saith the Lord GOD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:1 - Then came certain of the elders of Israel H3478 unto me, and sat before me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:4 - Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Every man of the house of Israel H3478 that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the LORD will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:5 - That I may take the house of Israel H3478 in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 14:6 - Therefore say unto the house of Israel, H3478 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

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