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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 160 times in 139 verses in 'Jos' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 3 (Jos 1:2–Jos 8:33)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:2 - “Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:2 - It was told the king of Jericho, saying, “Behold, men from the sons of Israel H3478 have come here tonight to search out the land.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:1 - Then Joshua rose early in the morning; and he and all the sons of Israel H3478 set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and they lodged there before they crossed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:7 - Now the LORD said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, H3478 that they may know that just as I have been with Moses, I will be with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:9 - Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, H3478 “Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:12 - “Now then, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, H3478 one man for each tribe.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 3:17 - And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel H3478 crossed on dry ground, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:4 - So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, H3478 one man from each tribe;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - and Joshua said to them, “[fn]Cross again to the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - then you shall say to them, ‘Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.’ So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel H3478 forever.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:8 - Thus the sons of Israel H3478 did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel; H3478 and they carried them over with them to the lodging place and put them down there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:12 - The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over in battle array before the sons of Israel, H3478 just as Moses had spoken to them;
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:14 - On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; H3478 so that they [fn]revered him, just as they had [fn]revered Moses all the days of his life.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:21 - He said to the sons of [fn]Israel, H3478 “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What are these stones?’
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:22 - then you shall inform your children, saying, ‘Israel H3478 crossed this Jordan on dry ground.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - Now it came about when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel H3478 until [fn]they had crossed, that their hearts melted, and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:2 - At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise again the sons of Israel H3478 the second time.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:3 - So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel H3478 at [fn]Gibeath-haaraloth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:6 - For the sons of Israel H3478 walked forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, [fn]perished because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD, to whom the LORD had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:10 - While the sons of Israel H3478 camped at Gilgal they observed the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:12 - The manna ceased on the [fn]day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land, so that the sons of Israel H3478 no longer had manna, but they ate some of the yield of the land of Canaan during that year.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:1 - Now Jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of Israel; H3478 no one went out and no one came in.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:18 - “But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things under the ban, so that you do not [fn]covet them and take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel H3478 accursed and bring trouble on it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:23 - So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua [fn]spared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel H3478 to this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:1 - But the sons of Israel H3478 acted unfaithfully in regard to the things under the ban, for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, took some of the things under the ban, therefore the anger of the LORD burned against the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:6 - Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, both he and the elders of Israel; H3478 and they put dust on their heads.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:8 - “O Lord, what can I say since Israel H3478 has turned their [fn]back before their enemies?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:11 - “Israel H3478 has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken some of the things under the ban and have both stolen and deceived. Moreover, they have also put them among their own things.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:12 - “Therefore the sons of Israel H3478 cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their [fn]backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from your midst.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:13 - “Rise up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478 has said, “There are things under the ban in your midst, O Israel. H3478 You cannot stand before your enemies until you have removed the things under the ban from your midst.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:15 - ‘It shall be that the one who is taken with the things under the ban shall be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has committed a disgraceful thing in Israel.’” H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:16 - So Joshua arose early in the morning and brought Israel H3478 near by [fn]tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:19 - Then Joshua said to Achan, “My son, I implore you, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478 and give praise to Him; and tell me now what you have done. Do not hide it from me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:20 - So Achan answered Joshua and said, “Truly, I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478 and [fn]this is what I did:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:23 - They took them from inside the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the sons of Israel, H3478 and they poured them out before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:24 - Then Joshua and all Israel H3478 with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the mantle, the bar of gold, his sons, his daughters, his [fn]oxen, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent and all that belonged to him; and they brought them up to the valley of [fn]Achor.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:25 - Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? The LORD will trouble you this day.” And all Israel H3478 stoned [fn]them with stones; and they burned them with fire [fn]after they had stoned them with stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:10 - Now Joshua rose early in the morning and mustered the people, and he went up with the elders of Israel H3478 before the people to Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:14 - It came about when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose up early and went out to meet Israel H3478 in battle, he and all his people at the appointed place before the desert plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:15 - Joshua and all Israel H3478 pretended to be beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:17 - So not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, H3478 and they left the city [fn]unguarded and pursued Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:21 - When Joshua and all Israel H3478 saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and [fn]slew the men of Ai.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:22 - [fn]The others came out from the city to encounter them, so that they were trapped in the midst of Israel, H3478 [fn]some on this side and some on that side; and they [fn]slew them until no one was left [fn]of those who survived or escaped.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:24 - Now when Israel H3478 had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword until they were destroyed, then all Israel H3478 returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:27 - Israel H3478 took only the cattle and the spoil of that city as plunder for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:30 - Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478 in Mount Ebal,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:31 - just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the sons of Israel, H3478 as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones on which no man had wielded an iron tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:32 - He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which [fn]he had written, in the presence of the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:33 - All Israel H3478 with their elders and officers and their judges were standing on both sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as the native. Half of them stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had given command at first to bless the people of Israel. H3478

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