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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 the LORD,

The first of His harvest.

All who ate of it became guilty;

Evil came upon them,” declares the LORD.’”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:4 -

Hear the word of the LORD, 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 servant born in the home?

Why has he become plunder?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:26 -

“Like the shame of a thief when he is discovered,

So the house of Israel H3478 is shamed;

They, their kings, their leaders,

Their priests, and their prophets,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:31 -

“You generation, look to the word of the LORD.

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 the LORD said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what faithless Israel H3478 did? She went up on every high hill and under every leafy tree, and she prostituted herself there.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:8 - “And I saw that for all the [fn]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 prostituted herself also.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:11 -

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

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

‘Return, faithless Israel H3478,’ declares the LORD;

‘I will not [fn]look at you in anger.

For I am gracious,’ declares the LORD;

‘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 -

“However, as a woman treacherously leaves her lover,

So you have dealt treacherously with Me,

House of Israel H3478,” declares the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:21 -

A voice is heard on the bare heights,

The weeping, the pleading of the sons of Israel H3478.

Because they have perverted their way,

They have forgotten the LORD their God.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 -

“Certainly the hills are a deception,

[fn]Commotion on the mountains.

Certainly in the LORD our God

Is the salvation of Israel H3478.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:1 -

“If you will return, Israel H3478,” declares the LORD,

Then you should return to Me.

And if you will put away your detestable 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 the LORD.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:15 -

“Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from far away, you house of Israel H3478,” declares the LORD.

“It is an enduring nation,

It is an ancient nation,

A nation whose language you do not know,

Nor can you understand what they say.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:9 -

This is what the LORD of armies says:

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

Pass your hand over the branches again

Like a grape gatherer.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:3 - This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel H3478 says: “Amend your ways and your deeds, and I will let you live 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 beginning, and see what I did to it because of the wickedness of My people Israel H3478.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:21 -

This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel H3478 says: “Add your burnt offerings to your sacrifices and eat flesh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:15 - therefore this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel H3478 says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood; and I will give them poisoned water to drink.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:26 - Egypt, Judah, Edom, the sons of Ammon, Moab, and all those inhabiting the desert who trim 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 the LORD speaks to you, house of Israel H3478.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:16 -

The Portion of Jacob is not like these;

For He is the [fn]Maker of everything,

And Israel H3478 is the tribe of His inheritance;

The LORD of armies is His name.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:3 - and say to them, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel H3478 says: “Cursed is the one who does not obey the words of this covenant
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - “They have turned back to the wrongdoings of their [fn]ancestors who refused to hear My words, and they have followed other gods to serve them. The house of Israel H3478 and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I made with their fathers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:17 -

The LORD of armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you because of the evil of the house of Israel H3478 and the house of Judah, which they have [fn]done to provoke Me by [fn]offering sacrifices to Baal.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:14 -

This is what the LORD says concerning all My wicked neighbors who do harm to the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel H3478: “Behold, I am going to drive them out of their land, and I will drive the house of Judah out from among them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:11 - ‘For as the undergarment clings to the waist of a man, so I made the entire household of Israel H3478 and the entire household of Judah cling to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘so that they might be My people, for [fn]renown, for praise, and for glory; but they did not listen.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 13:12 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:8 -

“Hope of Israel H3478,

Its Savior in time of distress,

Why are You like a stranger in the land,

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:9 - For this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel H3478 says: “Behold, I am going to eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, the voice of rejoicing and the voice of joy, the voice of the groom and the voice of the bride.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:14 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:15 - but, ‘As the LORD 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 restore them to their own land which I gave to their fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:13 -

LORD, the hope of Israel H3478,

All who abandon 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, that is the LORD.

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

“Therefore this is what the LORD says:

‘Just ask among the nations,

Who ever heard anything like [fn]this?

The virgin of Israel H3478

Has done a most appalling thing.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:3 - and say, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, you kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel H3478 says: “Behold I am going to bring a disaster upon this place, at which the ears of everyone that hears of it will tingle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:15 - “This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel H3478 says: ‘Behold, I am going to bring on this city and all its towns the entire disaster that I have declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to listen to My words.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘This is what the LORD, the God of Israel H3478 says: “Behold, I am going to turn back the weapons of war that are in your hands, with which you are making war against the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who are besieging you outside the wall; and I will gather them into the middle of this city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:2 - Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel H3478 says concerning the shepherds who are [fn]tending My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not been concerned about them; behold, I am going to call you to account for the evil of your deeds,” declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:6 -

“In His days Judah will be saved,

And Israel H3478 will live securely;

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

‘The LORD Our Righteousness.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:7 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:8 - but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up and led the descendants of the household of Israel H3478 back from the north land and from all the countries where I had driven 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 - “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel H3478 says: ‘Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the captives of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:15 -

For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel H3478, says to me: “Take this cup of the wine of wrath from My hand and give it to all the nations to whom I send you, to drink from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:27 -

“And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel H3478 says: “Drink, be drunk, vomit, fall down, and do not get up, because of the sword which I am sending among you.”’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:4 - “Order them to go to their masters, saying, ‘This is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel H3478 says: “This is what you shall say to your masters:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:21 - ‘Yes, this is what the LORD of armies, the God of Israel H3478, says concerning the vessels that are left in the house of the LORD and in the house of the king of Judah and in Jerusalem:

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