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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 125 times in 122 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Jer 2:3–Jer 27:21)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:3 -

“Israel H3478 was holy to Yahweh,

The first of His produce.

All who ate of it became guilty;

Evil came upon them,” declares Yahweh.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:4 -

Hear the word of Yahweh, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel H3478.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:14 -

“Is Israel H3478 a slave? Or is he a homeborn slave?

Why has he become plunder?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:26 -

“As the thief is shamed when he is found,

So the house of Israel H3478 is shamed;

They, their kings, their princes,

And their priests and their prophets,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 -

“O generation, [fn]behold the word of Yahweh.

Have I been a wilderness to Israel H3478

Or a land of thick darkness?

Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam;

We will no longer come to You’?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:6 -

Then Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, “Have you seen what faithless Israel H3478 did? She went up on every high hill and under every green tree, and she was a harlot there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - “And I saw that for all the adulteries of faithless Israel H3478, I had sent her away and given her a certificate of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:11 -

And Yahweh said to me, “Faithless Israel H3478 has proved herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:12 - “Go and call out these words toward the north and say,

[fn]Return, faithless Israel H3478,’ declares Yahweh;

‘I will not [fn]look upon you in anger.

For I am One of lovingkindness,’ declares Yahweh;

‘I will not be angry forever.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - “In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel H3478, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:20 -

“Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her [fn]lover,

So you have dealt treacherously with Me,

O house of Israel H3478,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:21 -

A voice is heard on the bare heights,

The weeping and the supplications of the sons of Israel H3478;

Because they have perverted their way,

They have forgotten Yahweh their God.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 -

“Surely, the hills are a lie,

A tumult on the mountains.

Surely in Yahweh our God

Is the salvation of Israel H3478.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:1 -

“If you will return, O Israel H3478,” declares Yahweh,

Then you should return to Me.

And if you will put away your detested things from My presence

And will not waver

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:11 -

“For the house of Israel H3478 and the house of Judah

Have dealt very treacherously with Me,” declares Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:15 -

“Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel H3478,” declares Yahweh.

“It is an enduring nation;

It is an ancient nation,

A nation whose tongue you do not know,

Nor can you [fn]understand what they say.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:9 -

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“They will thoroughly glean as the vine the remnant of Israel H3478;

Pass your hand again like a grape gatherer

Over the branches.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:3 - Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel H3478, “Make your ways and your deeds good, and I will let you dwell in this place.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:12 -

“But go now to My place which was in Shiloh, where I made My name dwell at the first, and see what I did to it because of the evil of My people Israel H3478.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:21 -

Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel H3478, “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:15 - therefore thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel H3478, “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them [fn]poisoned water to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - Egypt and Judah, and Edom and the sons of Ammon, and Moab and all those inhabiting the desert who clip the hair on their temples; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel H3478 are uncircumcised of heart.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:1 -

Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, O house of Israel H3478.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:16 -

The portion of Jacob is not like these;

For the [fn]Maker of all is He,

And Israel H3478 is the tribe of His inheritance;

Yahweh of hosts is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:3 - and say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, “Cursed is the man who does not hear the words of this covenant
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - “They have turned back to the iniquities of their [fn]ancestors who refused to hear My words, and they have walked after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel H3478 and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I cut with their fathers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:17 -

Yahweh of hosts, who planted you, has spoken forth evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel H3478 and of the house of Judah, which they have [fn]done to provoke Me to anger by burning incense to Baal.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:14 -

Thus says Yahweh concerning all My evil neighbors who beat at the inheritance with which I have caused My people Israel H3478 to inherit, “Behold, I am about to uproot them from their land and will uproot the house of Judah from among them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - ‘For as the belt clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel H3478 and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,’ declares Yahweh, ‘that they might be for Me a people, for a name, for praise, and for beauty; but they did not listen.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 -

“Therefore you are to say this word to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, “Every jug is to be filled with wine.”’ And they will say to you, ‘Do we not very well know that every jug is to be filled with wine?’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 -

“O Hope of Israel H3478,

Its Savior in time of distress,

Why are You like a sojourner in the land

Or like a traveler who has pitched his tent to lodge for the night?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel H3478: “Behold, I am going to cause to cease from this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:14 -

“Therefore behold, days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when it will no longer be said, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the sons of Israel H3478 out of the land of Egypt,’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:15 - but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the sons of Israel H3478 from the land of the north and from all the lands where He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:13 -

O Yahweh, the hope of Israel H3478,

All who forsake You will be put to shame.

Those who turn [fn]away on earth will be written down

Because they have forsaken the fountain of living water, even Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - “Can I not, O house of Israel H3478, deal with you as this potter does?” declares Yahweh. “Behold, like the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:13 -

“Therefore thus says Yahweh,

‘Ask now among the nations,

Who ever heard the like of [fn]this?

The virgin of Israel H3478

Has done a most appalling thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:3 - and say, ‘Hear the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel H3478, “Behold, I am about to bring a calamity upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel H3478, ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and all its towns the entire calamity that I have spoken against it because they have stiffened their necks so as not to hear My words.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, “Behold, I am about to turn back the weapons of war which are in your hands, with which you are warring against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the center of this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:2 - Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, concerning the shepherds who are shepherding My people: “You have scattered My flock and banished them and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you for the evil of your deeds,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:6 -

“In His days Judah will be saved,

And Israel H3478 will dwell securely;

And this is His name by which He will be called,

‘Yahweh our righteousness.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:7 -

“Therefore behold, the days are coming,” declares Yahweh, “when they will no longer say, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up the sons of Israel H3478 from the land of Egypt,’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:8 - but, ‘As Yahweh lives, who brought up and brought back the seed of the household of Israel H3478 from the north land and from all the lands where I had banished them.’ Then they will live on their own soil.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:13 -

“Moreover, among the prophets of Samaria I saw an offensive thing:

They prophesied by Baal and led My people Israel H3478 astray.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 24:5 - “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, ‘Like these good figs, so I will recognize as good the exiles of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 -

For thus Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, says to me, “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and cause all the nations to whom I send you to drink it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 -

“You shall say to them, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel H3478, “Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more because of the sword which I will send among you.”’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:4 - “And you shall command them to go to their masters, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel H3478, thus you shall say to your masters,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:21 - “Indeed, thus says Yahweh of hosts, the God of Israel H3478, concerning the vessels that are left in the house of Yahweh and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem,

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