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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 92 times in 87 verses in 'Isa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Isa 1:3–Isa 42:24)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:3 - “An ox knows its owner,
And a donkey its master’s manger,
But Israel H3478 does not know,
My people do not understand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:4 - Alas, sinful nation,
People weighed down with iniquity,
[fn]Offspring of evildoers,
Sons who act corruptly!
They have abandoned the LORD,
They have despised the Holy One of Israel, H3478
They have turned away [fn]from Him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 1:24 - Therefore the Lord [fn]GOD of hosts,
The Mighty One of Israel, H3478 declares,
“Ah, I will be relieved of My adversaries
And avenge Myself on My foes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 4:2 - In that day the Branch of the LORD will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth will be the pride and the adornment of the survivors of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:7 - For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel H3478
And the men of Judah His delightful plant.
Thus He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed;
For righteousness, but behold, a cry of distress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:19 - Who say, “Let Him make speed, let Him hasten His work, that we may see it;
And let the purpose of the Holy One of Israel H3478 draw near
And come to pass, that we may know it!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 5:24 - Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes stubble
And dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom [fn]blow away as dust;
For they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts
And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:1 - Now it came about in the days of Ahaz, the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin the king of Aram and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, H3478 went up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not [fn]conquer it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:14 - “Then He shall become a sanctuary;
But to both the houses of Israel, H3478 a stone to strike and a rock to stumble over,
And a snare and a trap for the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:18 - Behold, I and the children whom the LORD has given me are for signs and wonders in Israel H3478 from the LORD of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:8 - The Lord sends a [fn]message against Jacob,
And it falls on Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:12 - The Arameans on the east and the Philistines on the west;
And they devour Israel H3478 with [fn]gaping jaws.
In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away
And His hand is still stretched out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:14 - So the LORD cuts off head and tail from Israel, H3478
Both palm branch and bulrush in a single day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:17 - And the light of Israel H3478 will become a fire and his Holy One a flame,
And it will burn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:20 - Now in that day the remnant of Israel, H3478 and those of the house of Jacob who have escaped, will never again rely on the one who struck them, but will truly rely on the LORD, the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:22 - For though your people, O Israel, H3478 may be like the sand of the sea,
Only a remnant within them will return;
A destruction is determined, overflowing with righteousness.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:12 - And He will lift up a standard for the nations
And assemble the banished ones of Israel, H3478
And will gather the dispersed of Judah
From the four corners of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 11:16 - And there will be a highway from Assyria
For the remnant of His people who will be left,
Just as there was for Israel H3478
In the day that they came up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 12:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 12:6 - Cry aloud and shout for joy, O inhabitant of Zion,
For great in your midst is the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:1 - When the LORD will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel, H3478 and settle them in their own land, then strangers will join them and attach themselves to the house of Jacob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:2 - The peoples will take them along and bring them to their place, and the house of Israel H3478 will possess them as an inheritance in the land of the LORD as male servants and female servants; and [fn]they will take their captors captive and will rule over their oppressors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:3 - “The [fn]fortified city will disappear from Ephraim,
And [fn]sovereignty from Damascus
And the remnant of Aram;
They will be like the glory of the sons of Israel,” H3478
Declares the LORD of hosts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:6 - Yet gleanings will be left in it like the [fn]shaking of an olive tree,
Two or three olives on the topmost bough,
Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,
Declares the LORD, the God of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:7 - In that day man will have regard for his Maker
And his eyes will look to the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:9

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:9 - In that day [fn]their strong cities will be like [fn]forsaken places in the forest,
Or like [fn]branches which they abandoned before the sons of Israel; H3478
And [fn]the land will be a desolation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:24 - In that day Israel H3478 will be the third party with Egypt and Assyria, a blessing in the midst of the earth,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:25 - whom the LORD of hosts has blessed, saying, “Blessed is Egypt My people, and Assyria the work of My hands, and Israel H3478 My inheritance.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:10 - O my threshed people, and my [fn]afflicted of the threshing floor!
What I have heard from the LORD of hosts,
The God of Israel, H3478 I make known to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:17 - and the remainder of the number of bowmen, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for the LORD God of Israel H3478 has spoken.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 24:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 24:15 - Therefore glorify the LORD in the [fn]east,
The name of the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478
In the [fn]coastlands of the sea.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:6 - [fn]In the days to come Jacob will take root,
Israel H3478 will blossom and sprout,
And they will fill the [fn]whole world with fruit.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 27:12 - In that day the LORD will start His threshing from the flowing stream of the Euphrates to the brook of Egypt, and you will be gathered up one by one, O sons of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:19 - The afflicted also will increase their gladness in the LORD,
And the needy of mankind will rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 29:23 - But when [fn]he sees his children, the work of My hands, in his midst,
They will sanctify My name;
Indeed, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob
And will stand in awe of the God of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:11 - “Get out of the way, turn aside from the path,
[fn]Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel.” H3478

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:12 - Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, H3478
“Since you have rejected this word
And have put your trust in oppression and guile, and have relied on them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:15 - For thus the Lord [fn]GOD, the Holy One of Israel, H3478 has said,
“In [fn]repentance and rest you will be saved,
In quietness and trust is your strength.”
But you were not willing,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:29 - You will have [fn]songs as in the night when you keep the festival,
And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute,
To go to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:1 - Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help
And rely on horses,
And trust in chariots because they are many
And in horsemen because they are very strong,
But they do not look to the Holy One of Israel, H3478 nor seek the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 31:6 - Return to Him from whom [fn]you have deeply defected, O sons of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:16 - “O LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, H3478 who is enthroned above the cherubim, You are the God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:21 - Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent word to Hezekiah, saying, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478 ‘Because you have prayed to Me about Sennacherib king of Assyria,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:23 - “Whom have you reproached and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice
And [fn]haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel! H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:27 - Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, H3478
“My way is hidden from the LORD,
And the justice due me [fn]escapes the notice of my God”?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:8 - “But you, Israel, H3478 My servant,
Jacob whom I have chosen,
Descendant of Abraham My friend,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:14 - “Do not fear, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel; H3478
I will help you,” declares the LORD, “[fn]and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:16 - “You will winnow them, and the wind will carry them away,
And the storm will scatter them;
But you will rejoice in the LORD,
You will glory in the Holy One of Israel. H3478

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:17 - “The [fn]afflicted and needy are seeking water, but there is none,
And their tongue is parched with thirst;
I, the LORD, will answer them Myself,
As the God of Israel H3478 I will not forsake them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 41:20 - That they may see and recognize,
And consider and gain insight as well,
That the hand of the LORD has done this,
And the Holy One of Israel H3478 has created it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:24 - Who gave Jacob up for spoil, and Israel H3478 to plunderers?
Was it not the LORD, against whom we have sinned,
And in whose ways they were not willing to walk,
And whose law they did not obey?

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