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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 184 times in 154 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Jdg 1:1–Jdg 6:37)

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Now it happened after the death of Joshua that the sons of Israel H3478 asked of [fn]Yahweh, saying, “Who shall go up first for us against the Canaanites, to fight against them?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:28 - And it happened when Israel H3478 became strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not dispossess them completely.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - So it happened that when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the sons of Israel H3478, the people lifted up their voices and wept.

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Then Joshua sent the people away, and the sons of Israel H3478 went each to his inheritance to possess the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:7 - And the people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who [fn]survived Joshua, who saw all the great work of Yahweh which He had done for Israel H3478.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - And all that generation also were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them who did not know Yahweh or even the work which He had done for Israel H3478.

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Then the sons of Israel H3478 did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh and [fn]served the Baals,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - And the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel H3478, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - So the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel H3478, and He said, “Because this nation has trespassed against My covenant which I commanded their fathers and has not listened to My voice,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:22 - in order to test Israel H3478 by them, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk in it as their fathers [fn]did, or not.”

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Now these are the nations which Yahweh allowed to remain, to test Israel H3478 by them (that is, all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2 - [fn]however, God tested them in order that the generations of the sons of Israel H3478 would know war, by learning war, [fn]especially those who had not known it formerly).

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - And they were for [fn]testing Israel H3478, to know if they would [fn]obey the commandments of Yahweh, which He had commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - Now the sons of Israel H3478 lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites;

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Thus the sons of Israel H3478 did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh and forgot Yahweh their God and served the Baals and the [fn]Asheroth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - Then the anger of Yahweh burned against Israel H3478, so that He sold them into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim king of [fn]Mesopotamia; and the sons of Israel H3478 served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - Then the sons of Israel H3478 cried to Yahweh, and Yahweh raised up a savior for the sons of Israel H3478 to save them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10 - And the Spirit of Yahweh came upon him, and he judged Israel H3478. And he went out to war, and Yahweh gave Cushan-rishathaim king of [fn]Mesopotamia into his hand. So his hand was strong against Cushan-rishathaim.

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Then the sons of Israel H3478 again did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh. So Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel H3478 because they had done what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - And he gathered to himself the sons of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel H3478, and they possessed the city of the palm trees.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:14 - So the sons of Israel H3478 served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

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Then the sons of Israel H3478 cried to Yahweh, and Yahweh raised up a savior for them, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man. And the sons of Israel H3478 sent tribute by his hand to Eglon the king of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27 - And it happened when he had arrived, that he blew the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel H3478 went down with him from the hill country, and he was in front of them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30 - So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel H3478. And the land was quiet for eighty years.

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Now after him was Shamgar the son of Anath. And he struck down 600 Philistines with an oxgoad; and he also saved Israel H3478.

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Then the sons of Israel H3478 again did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh. Now Ehud had died.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - Then the sons of Israel H3478 cried to Yahweh; for he had 900 iron chariots, and he oppressed the sons of Israel H3478 severely for twenty years.

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Now Deborah, a [fn]prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel H3478 at that time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - And she used to [fn]sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel H3478 came up to her for judgment.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - Then she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, “Has not Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, commanded, ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you 10,000 men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun?

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So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the sons of Israel H3478.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:24 - And the hand of the sons of Israel H3478 went forth heavier and heavier against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had cut off Jabin the king of Canaan.

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“When [fn]the leaders led in Israel H3478,

When the people volunteered,

Bless Yahweh!

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“Hear, O kings; give ear, O rulers!

As for me, to Yahweh, I will sing;

I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478.

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“The mountains [fn]flowed at the presence of Yahweh,

This Sinai, at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478.

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“The peasantry ceased; they ceased in Israel H3478,

Until I, Deborah, arose,

Until I arose, a mother in Israel H3478.

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“[fn]God chose new leaders;

Then war was in the gates.

Not a shield or a spear was seen

Among forty thousand in Israel H3478.

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“My heart goes out to the commanders of Israel H3478,

The volunteers among the people;

Bless Yahweh!

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“At the sound of those who divide flocks among the watering places,

There they shall [fn]commemorate the righteous deeds of Yahweh,

The righteous deeds for His [fn]peasantry in Israel H3478.

Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

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Then the sons of Israel H3478 did what was evil in the eyes of Yahweh; and Yahweh gave them into the hands of Midian seven years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2 - And the [fn]power of Midian prevailed against Israel H3478. Because of Midian the sons of Israel H3478 made for themselves the dens which were in the mountains and the caves and the strongholds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - And it was when Israel H3478 had sown, that the Midianites would go up with the Amalekites and the sons of the east and go up against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - So they would camp against them and ruin the produce of the earth [fn]as far as Gaza and leave no sustenance in Israel H3478 as well as no sheep, ox, or donkey.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6 - So Israel H3478 was brought very low because of Midian, and the sons of Israel H3478 cried out to Yahweh.

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Now it happened when the sons of Israel H3478 cried out to Yahweh on account of Midian,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - that Yahweh sent a prophet to the sons of Israel H3478, and he said to them, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel H3478, ‘It was I who brought you up from Egypt and brought you out from the house of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - Then Yahweh turned to him and said, “Go in this strength of yours and save Israel H3478 from the hand of Midian. Have I not sent you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - But he said to Him, “O Lord, with what shall I save Israel H3478? Behold, my clan is the least in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

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Then Gideon said to God, “If You will save Israel H3478 by my hand, as You have spoken,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:37 - behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I will know that You will save Israel H3478 by my hand, as You have spoken.”

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