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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 164 times in 146 verses in '2Ki' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (2Ki 1:1–2Ki 10:29)

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:1 -

Now Moab broke with Israel H3478 after the death of Ahab.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:3 - But the angel of the LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, “Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria and say to them, ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel H3478 that you are going to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?’
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:6 - They said to him, “A man came up to meet us and said to us, ‘Go, return to the king who sent you and say to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Is it because there is no God in Israel H3478 that you are sending messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore [fn]you will not get down from the bed upon which you have lain, but you shall certainly die.’”’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:16 - Then he said to him, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Since you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron—is it because there is no God in Israel H3478 to inquire of His word? Therefore [fn]you will not get down from the bed upon which you have lain, but you shall certainly die.’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:18 - Now as for the rest of the acts of Ahaziah which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel H3478?
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:12 - And Elisha was watching it and he was crying out, “My father, my father, the chariot of Israel H3478 and its horsemen!” And he did not see [fn]Elijah again. Then he took hold of his own clothes and tore them in two pieces.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:1 -

Now Jehoram the son of Ahab became king over Israel H3478 at Samaria in the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned for twelve years.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:3 - Nevertheless, he clung to the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel H3478; he did not abandon them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:4 -

Now Mesha the king of Moab was a sheep breeder, and he used to make tribute payments to the king of Israel H3478 of a hundred thousand lambs, and the wool of a hundred thousand rams.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:5 - However, when King Ahab died, the king of Moab broke with the [fn]king of Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:6 - So King Jehoram left Samaria for battle [fn]at that time and mustered all Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:9 -

So the king of Israel H3478 went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey. But there was no water for the army or for the cattle that [fn]followed them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:10 - Then the king of Israel H3478 said, “It is hopeless! For the LORD has called these three kings to hand them over to Moab!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:11 - But Jehoshaphat said, “Is there no prophet of the LORD here, that we may inquire of the LORD by him?” And one of the king of Israel’s H3478 servants answered and said, “Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who used to pour water on the hands of Elijah.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:12 - And Jehoshaphat said, “The word of the LORD is with him.” So the king of Israel H3478 and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:13 -

Now Elisha said to the king of Israel H3478, “[fn]What business do you have with me? Go to your father’s prophets and your mother’s prophets.” But the king of Israel H3478 said to him, “No, for the LORD has called these three kings together to hand them over to Moab.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:24 - But when they came to the camp of Israel H3478, the Israelites H3478 rose up and struck the Moabites, so that they fled from them; and the Israelites invaded [fn]the land, [fn]killing the Moabites.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 3:27 - Then the king of Moab took his oldest son who was to reign in his place, and offered him as a burnt offering on the wall. And great anger came upon Israel H3478, and they departed from him and returned to their own land.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:2 - Now the Arameans had gone out in bands and had taken captive a little girl from the land of Israel H3478; and she [fn]waited on Naaman’s wife.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:4 - And [fn]Naaman went in and told his master, saying, “The girl who is from the land of Israel H3478 spoke such and such.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:5 - Then the king of Aram said, “Go [fn]now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel H3478.” So he departed and took with him ten [fn]talents of silver, six thousand [fn]shekels of gold, and ten changes of clothes.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:6 -

And he brought the letter to the king of Israel H3478, [fn]which said, “And now as this letter comes to you, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to you, so that you may cure him of his leprosy.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:7 - But when the king of Israel H3478 read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, “Am I God, to kill and to keep alive, that this man is sending word to me to cure a man of his leprosy? But consider now, and see how he is seeking [fn]a quarrel against me.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:8 -

Now it happened, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel H3478 had torn his clothes, that he sent word to the king, saying, “Why did you tear your clothes? Just have him come to me, and he shall learn that there is a prophet in Israel H3478.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:12 - “Are [fn]Abanah and Pharpar, the rivers of Damascus, not better than all the waters of Israel H3478? Could I not wash in them and be clean?” So he turned and went away in a rage.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:15 -

Then he returned to the man of God [fn]with all his company, and came and stood before him. And he said, “Behold now, I know that there is no God in all the earth, except in Israel H3478; so please accept a [fn]gift from your servant now.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:8 -

Now the king of Aram was making war against Israel H3478; and he consulted with his servants, saying, “In such and such a place shall be my camp.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:9 - But the man of God sent word to the king of Israel H3478, saying, “Be careful that you do not pass this place, because the Arameans are coming down there.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:10 - And the king of Israel H3478 sent scouts to the place about which the man of God had told him; so he warned him, so that he was on his guard there, [fn]more than once or twice.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:11 -

Now the heart of the king of Aram was enraged over this matter; and he called his servants and said to them, “Will you not tell me which of us is for the king of Israel H3478?”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:12 - One of his servants said, “No, my lord, the king; but Elisha, the prophet who is in Israel H3478, tells the king of Israel H3478 the words that you speak in your bedroom.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:21 - Then the king of Israel H3478 when he saw them, said to Elisha, “My father, shall I [fn]kill them? Shall I [fn]kill them?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:23 - So he provided a large feast for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the marauding bands of Arameans did not come again into the land of Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:26 - And as the king of Israel H3478 was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord the king!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:6 - For the Lord had made the army of the Arameans hear a sound of chariots, a sound of horses, that is, the sound of a great army; and they said to one another, “Behold, the king of Israel H3478 has hired the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians against us, to [fn]attack us!”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 7:13 - One of his servants responded and said, “Please, have some men take five of the horses that remain, which are left [fn]in the city. Behold, they will be in any case like all the multitude of Israel H3478 who are left in it; behold, they will be like all the multitude of Israel H3478 who have already perished, so let us send them and see.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - And Hazael said, “Why is my lord weeping?” And he [fn]answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel H3478: you will set their fortified cities on fire, you will kill their young men with the sword, their little ones you will smash to pieces, and you will rip up their pregnant women.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:16 -

Now in the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel H3478, when Jehoshaphat was the king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah became king.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:18 - He walked in the way of the kings of Israel H3478, just as the house of Ahab had done, for Ahab’s daughter was his wife; and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:25 -

In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel H3478, Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah began to reign.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:26 - Ahaziah was twenty-two years old when he became king, and he reigned for one year in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Athaliah the granddaughter of Omri king of Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:3 - “Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head, and say, ‘This is what the LORD says: “I have anointed you king over Israel H3478.”’ Then open the door and flee, and do not wait.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:6 - He then got up and went into the house, and the prophet’s servant poured the oil on his head and said to him, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel H3478 says: ‘I have anointed you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:8 - ‘For the entire house of Ahab shall perish, and I will eliminate from Ahab every male person both [fn]slave and free in Israel H3478.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:12 - And they said, “It is a lie; tell us now.” And he said, “Such and such he said to me, saying, ‘This is what the LORD says: “I have anointed you king over Israel H3478.”’”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:14 -

So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. Now Joram [fn]with all Israel H3478 was [fn]defending Ramoth-gilead against Hazael king of Aram,

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:21 -

Then [fn]Joram said, “[fn]Get ready.” And they [fn]made his chariot ready. Then [fn]Joram king of Israel H3478 and Ahaziah king of Judah went out, each in his chariot, and they went out to meet Jehu and found him on the [fn]property of Naboth the Jezreelite.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:21 - Then Jehu sent word [fn]throughout Israel H3478, and all the worshipers of Baal came, so that there was not a person left who did not come. And when they entered the house of Baal, the house of Baal was filled from one end to the other.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:28 -

So Jehu eradicated Baal from Israel H3478.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:29 - However, as for the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, into which he misled Israel H3478, from these Jehu did not desist, including the golden calves that were at Bethel and at Dan.

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