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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 187 times in 162 verses in '2Ch' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (2Ch 1:2–2Ch 11:13)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:2 -

And Solomon spoke to all Israel H3478, to the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every leader in all Israel H3478, the heads of the fathers’ households.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 1:13 - So Solomon went [fn]from the high place which was at Gibeon, from the tent of meeting, to Jerusalem, and he reigned over Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:4 - “Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, setting it apart to Him as holy, to burn fragrant incense before Him and to set out the showbread continually, and to offer burnt offerings morning and evening, on sabbaths and on new moons and on the appointed feasts of Yahweh our God, this being required forever in Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:12 - Then Huram said, “Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, who has made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, knowledgeable in insight and understanding, who will build a house for Yahweh and a [fn]royal palace for himself.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:17 -

Then Solomon numbered all the sojourners who were in the land of Israel H3478, following the [fn]census which his father David had [fn]taken; and 153,600 were found.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:2 -

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 Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh from the city of David, which is Zion.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:3 - And all the men of Israel H3478 assembled themselves to the king at the feast, that is in the seventh month.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:4 - Then all the elders of Israel H3478 came, and the Levites carried the ark.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:6 - And King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel H3478 who congregated with him before the ark, were sacrificing [fn]so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 5:10 - There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets which Moses put there at Horeb, where Yahweh cut a covenant with the sons of Israel H3478, when they came out of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:3 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:4 - 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 hands, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:5 - ‘Since the day that I brought My people from the land of 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, nor did I choose any man for a ruler over My people Israel H3478;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:6 - but I have chosen Jerusalem that My name might be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel H3478.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:7 - “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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:10 - “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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:11 - “And there I have set the ark in which is the covenant of Yahweh, which He cut with the sons of Israel H3478.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:12 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:13 - Now Solomon had made a bronze platform, five cubits long, five cubits wide and three cubits high, and had put it in the midst of the court; and he stood on it, knelt on his knees in the presence of all the assembly of Israel H3478, and spread out his hands toward heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:14 - And he said, “O Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, there is no god like You in heaven or on earth, keeping covenant and lovingkindness to Your slaves who walk before You with all their heart;
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:16 - “So now, O Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, keep with Your servant David my father, that which You have 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 in My law as you have walked before Me.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:17 - “So now, O Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, let Your word truly [fn]endure which You have spoken to Your servant David.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:21 - “And listen to the supplications of Your slave and of Your people Israel H3478, when they pray toward this place; listen from Your dwelling place, from heaven; listen and forgive.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:24 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:25 - then listen from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel H3478, and bring them back to the land which You have given to them and to their fathers.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:27 - 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:29 - whatever prayer or supplication is made by any man or by all Your people Israel H3478, who know his own affliction and his own pain, and spread his hands toward this house,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:32 -

“Also concerning the foreigner who is not of Your people Israel H3478, if he comes from a far country for Your great name’s sake and Your strong hand and Your outstretched arm, so if they come and pray toward this house,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 6:33 - then listen from heaven, from 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 even 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.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:3 - And all the sons of Israel H3478, seeing the fire come down and the glory of Yahweh upon the house, bowed down on the pavement with their faces to the ground, and they worshiped and gave praise to Yahweh, saying, “For He is good, for His lovingkindness endures forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:6 - And the priests stood at their posts, and the Levites also, with the instruments of music to Yahweh, which King David had made for giving thanks to Yahweh-“for His lovingkindness endures forever”—whenever [fn]he gave praise by their hand, while the priests on the other side blew trumpets; and all Israel H3478 was standing.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:8 -

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

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:10 - And on the twenty-third day of the seventh month he sent the people to their tents, with gladness and goodness of heart because of the goodness that Yahweh had shown to David and to Solomon and to Israel H3478 His people.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 7:18 - then I will establish your royal throne as I cut a covenant with your father David, saying, ‘[fn]You shall not have a man cut off as ruler in Israel H3478.’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:2 - that he built the cities which Huram had given to [fn]him, and settled the sons of Israel H3478 there.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:7 -

As for all the people who were left of the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel H3478,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:8 - namely, from their sons who were left after them in the land whom the sons of Israel H3478 had not consumed, from them Solomon raised up forced laborers to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:9 - But Solomon did not make slaves for his work from the sons of Israel H3478; for they were men of war, his chief captains and his chariot commanders and his horsemen.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 8:11 -

Then Solomon brought Pharaoh’s daughter up from the city of David to the house which he had built for her, for he said, “My wife shall not live in the house of David king of Israel H3478, because [fn]the places are holy where the ark of Yahweh has entered.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:8 - “Blessed be Yahweh your God who delighted in you, to set you on His throne as king for Yahweh your God; because your God loved Israel H3478 to cause them to stand forever, therefore He gave you as king over them, to do justice and righteousness.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 9:30 - Thus Solomon reigned forty years in Jerusalem over all Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:1 -

Then Rehoboam went to Shechem, for all Israel H3478 had come to Shechem to make him king.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:3 - Then they sent and called for him. And Jeroboam and all Israel H3478 came and spoke to Rehoboam, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:16 -

Now all Israel H3478 saw that the king did not listen to them. So the people responded to the king, saying,

“What portion do we have in David?

We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse.

Every man to your tents, O Israel H3478;

Now see to your own house, David.”

So all Israel H3478 went to their tents.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:17 - But as for the sons of Israel H3478 who lived in the cities of Judah, Rehoboam reigned over them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:18 - Then King Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the forced labor, and the sons of Israel H3478 [fn]stoned him and he died. And King Rehoboam made haste to mount his chariot to flee to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:19 - So Israel H3478 has been in rebellion against the house of David to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:1 -

Then Rehoboam came to Jerusalem and assembled the house of Judah and Benjamin, 180,000 chosen men who could wage war, to fight against Israel H3478 to return the kingdom to Rehoboam.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:3 - “Speak to Rehoboam the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all Israel H3478 in Judah and Benjamin, saying,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 11:13 -

Moreover, the priests and the Levites who were in all Israel H3478 took their stand with him from all their territories.


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