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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 203 times in 171 verses in '1Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (1Ki 1:3–1Ki 9:7)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:3 - So they sought for a beautiful young woman throughout all the territory of Israel H3478, and found Abishag the Shunammite, and brought her to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:20 - “As for you now, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel H3478 are on you, to tell them who shall sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:30 - surely as I swore to you by Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, saying, ‘Surely your son Solomon shall be king after me, and he shall sit on my throne in my place’; I will surely do so this day.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:34 - “And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet shall anoint him there as king over Israel H3478 and blow the trumpet and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:35 - “Then you shall come up after him, and he shall come and sit on my throne. And he shall be king in my place; for I have commanded him to be ruler over Israel H3478 and Judah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:48 - “And also, the king said thus, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, who has granted one to sit on my throne today while my own eyes see it.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:4 - so that Yahweh may establish His promise which He spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons keep their way, to walk before Me in [fn]truth with all their heart and with all their soul, He said, [fn]you shall not have a man cut off from the throne of Israel H3478.’

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“Now you also know what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me, what he did to the two commanders of the armies of Israel H3478, to Abner the son of Ner, and to Amasa the son of Jether, whom he killed; he also [fn]shed the blood of war in peace. And he put the blood of war on his belt [fn]about his [fn]waist, and on his sandals [fn]on his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:11 - And the [fn]time which David reigned over Israel H3478 was forty years; in Hebron he reigned seven years and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:15 - So he said, “You know that the kingdom was mine and that all Israel H3478 [fn]expected me to be king; however, the kingdom has turned about and become my brother’s, for it was his from Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 2:32 - “And Yahweh will return his blood on his own head, because he fell upon two men more righteous and better than he and killed them with the sword, but my father David did not know it: Abner the son of Ner, commander of the army of Israel H3478, and Amasa the son of Jether, commander of the army of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:28

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:28 - Then all Israel H3478 heard of the judgment which the king had [fn]handed down, and they feared the king, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

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So King Solomon was king over all Israel H3478.

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Now Solomon had twelve deputies over all Israel H3478, who sustained the king and his household; each man had to sustain them for a month in the year.

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Judah and Israel H3478 were as numerous as the sand that is on the [fn]seashore in abundance; they were eating and drinking and being glad.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 4:25 - So Judah and Israel H3478 lived in security, every man under his vine and his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

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And King Solomon raised up forced laborers from all Israel H3478; and the forced laborers [fn]numbered 30,000 men.

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Now it happened in the four hundred and eightieth year after the sons of Israel H3478 came out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel H3478, in the month of Ziv which is the second month, that he [fn]began to build the house of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 6:13 - “And I will dwell among the sons of Israel H3478, and will not forsake My people Israel H3478.”

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Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel H3478 and all the heads of the tribes, the leaders of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel H3478, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, which is Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:2 - And all the men of Israel H3478 assembled themselves to King Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:3 - Then all the elders of Israel H3478 came, and the priests carried the ark.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:5 - And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel H3478, who congregated to him being with him before the ark, were sacrificing [fn]so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:9 - There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone which Moses laid there at Horeb, where Yahweh cut a covenant with the sons of Israel H3478, when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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Then the king turned his face around and blessed all the assembly of Israel H3478, while all the assembly of Israel H3478 was standing.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:15 - And he said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, who spoke with His mouth to my father David and has fulfilled it by His hand, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:16 - ‘Since the day that I brought My people Israel H3478 from Egypt, I did not choose a city out of all the tribes of Israel H3478 in which to build a house that My name might be there, but I have chosen David to be over My people Israel H3478.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:17 - “And it was [fn]in the heart of my father David to build a house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:20 - “And Yahweh has established His word which He spoke; and I have been established in place of my father David and sit on the throne of Israel H3478, as Yahweh [fn]promised, and have built the house for the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478.

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Then Solomon stood before the altar of Yahweh before all the assembly of Israel H3478 and spread out his hands toward heaven.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:23 - And he said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, there is no god like You in heaven above or upon earth beneath, keeping covenant and lovingkindness to Your slaves who walk before You with all their heart,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:25 - “So now, O Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, keep with Your [fn]servant David my father that which You have [fn]promised him, saying, ‘You shall not have a man cut off from before Me who is to sit on the throne of Israel H3478, if only your sons keep their way to walk as you have walked before Me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:26 - “So now, O God of Israel H3478, let Your word truly [fn]endure which You have spoken to Your [fn]servant, my father David.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:30 - “And listen to the supplication of Your slave and of Your people Israel H3478, when they pray toward this place; listen in heaven Your dwelling place; listen and forgive.

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“When Your people Israel H3478 are [fn]defeated before an enemy, because they have sinned against You, if they turn to You again and confess Your name and pray and make supplication to You in this house,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:34 - then listen in heaven, and forgive the sin of Your people Israel H3478, and bring them back to the land which You gave to their fathers.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:36 - then listen in heaven and forgive the sin of Your slaves and of Your people Israel H3478; indeed, teach them the good way in which they should walk. And give rain on Your land, which You have given to Your people for an inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:38

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:38 - whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel H3478, each of whom knows the [fn]affliction of his own heart, and spreads his [fn]hands toward this house;

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“Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel H3478, if he comes from a far country for Your name’s sake

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:43 - listen in heaven Your dwelling place, and do according to all for which the foreigner calls to You, in order that all the peoples of the earth may know Your name to [fn]fear You, as do Your people Israel H3478, and to know that Your name is called upon this house which I have built.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:52

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:52 - that Your eyes may be open to the supplication of Your slave and to the supplication of Your people Israel H3478, to listen to them whenever they call to You.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:55

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:55 - And he stood and blessed all the assembly of Israel H3478 with a loud voice, saying:

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“Blessed be Yahweh, who has given rest to His people Israel H3478, according to all that He [fn]promised; not one promise has [fn]failed of all His good [fn]promises, which He [fn]promised by the hand of Moses His [fn]servant.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:59 - “And may these words of mine, with which I have made supplication before Yahweh, be near to Yahweh our God day and night, that He may do justice for His slave and justice for His people Israel H3478, [fn]as each day requires,

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Now the king and all Israel H3478 with him were offering sacrifices before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:63 - And Solomon offered for the sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered to Yahweh, 22,000 oxen and 120,000 sheep. So the king and all the sons of Israel H3478 dedicated the house of Yahweh.

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So Solomon celebrated the feast at that time, and all Israel H3478 with him, a great assembly from [fn]Lebo-hamath to the brook of Egypt, before Yahweh our God, for seven days and seven more days, even fourteen days.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:66

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 8:66 - On the eighth day he sent the people away and they blessed the king. Then they went to their tents with gladness and goodness of heart because of all the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David His [fn]servant and to Israel H3478 His people.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:5 - then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel H3478 forever, just as I [fn]promised to your father David, saying, ‘You shall not have a man cut off from the throne of Israel H3478.’

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:7 - then I will cut off Israel H3478 from the land which I have given them, and the house which I have set apart as holy for My name, I will [fn]cast out of My presence. So Israel H3478 will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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