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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, 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 servant?
Why has he become a prey?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:26 - “As the thief is shamed when he is discovered,
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, heed 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 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 writ of divorce, yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear; but she went and was a harlot also.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:11 - And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel H3478 has proved herself 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 upon 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 - “Surely, as a woman treacherously departs from her [fn]lover,
So you have dealt treacherously with Me,
O house of Israel,” H3478 declares the LORD.
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 the LORD their God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:23 - “Surely, the hills are a deception,
A tumult on the mountains.
Surely in the LORD our God
Is the salvation of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:1 - “If you will return, O Israel,” H3478 declares the LORD,
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 the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:15 - “Behold, I am bringing a nation against you from afar, O 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 - Thus says the LORD 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 the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, H3478 “Amend your ways and your deeds, 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 wickedness of My people Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:21 - Thus says the LORD 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 the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, H3478 “behold, I will feed them, this people, with wormwood and give them 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 the LORD 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;
The LORD of hosts is His name.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:3 - and say to them, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478 “Cursed is the man who does not heed 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 gone after 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 hosts, who planted you, has pronounced 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 by [fn]offering up sacrifices to Baal.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:14 - Thus says the LORD concerning all My wicked neighbors who strike at the inheritance with which I have endowed My people Israel, H3478 “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 waistband clings to the waist of a man, so I made the whole household of Israel H3478 and the whole household of Judah cling to Me,’ declares the LORD, ‘that they might be for Me a 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, ‘Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478 “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 - “O 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 thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: H3478 “Behold, I am going to [fn]eliminate from this place, before your eyes and in your time, 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 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 countries 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 - O LORD, 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 the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:6 - “Can I not, O house of Israel, H3478 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, O house of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:13 - “Therefore thus says the LORD,
‘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 the LORD, O kings of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem: thus says the LORD 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 the LORD 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 declared against it, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 21:4 - ‘Thus says the LORD 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 the LORD God of Israel H3478 concerning the shepherds who are [fn]tending My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them; behold, I am about to attend to you 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 dwell 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 up the sons of Israel H3478 from the land of Egypt,’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:8 - but, ‘As the LORD lives, who brought up and led back the descendants of the household of Israel H3478 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 - “Thus says the LORD God of Israel, H3478 ‘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 thus the LORD, 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 the LORD 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 - “Command them to go to their masters, saying, ‘Thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, H3478 thus you shall say to your masters,
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:21 - “Yes, thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, H3478 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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