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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 184 times in 154 verses in 'Jdg' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 4 (Jdg 1:1–Jdg 6:37)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:1 - After the death of Joshua, the Israelites asked the LORD, “Who of us is to go up first to fight against the Canaanites?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:28 - When Israel became strong, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor but never drove them out completely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:4 - When the angel of the LORD had spoken these things to all the Israelites, the people wept aloud,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:6 - After Joshua had dismissed the Israelites, they went to take possession of the land, each to their own inheritance.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:7 - The people served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had seen all the great things the LORD had done for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:10 - After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:11 - Then the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD and served the Baals.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:14 - In his anger against Israel the LORD gave them into the hands of raiders who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:20 - Therefore the LORD was very angry with Israel and said, “Because this nation has violated the covenant I ordained for their ancestors and has not listened to me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 2:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 2:22 - I will use them to test Israel and see whether they will keep the way of the LORD and walk in it as their ancestors did.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:1 - These are the nations the LORD left to test all those Israelites who had not experienced any of the wars in Canaan

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:2 - (he did this only to teach warfare to the descendants of the Israelites who had not had previous battle experience):

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:4 - They were left to test the Israelites to see whether they would obey the LORD’s commands, which he had given their ancestors through Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:5 - The Israelites lived among the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:7 - The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD; they forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asherahs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:8 - The anger of the LORD burned against Israel so that he sold them into the hands of Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram Naharaim,[fn] to whom the Israelites were subject for eight years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:9 - But when they cried out to the LORD, he raised up for them a deliverer, Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, who saved them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:10 - The Spirit of the LORD came on him, so that he became Israel’s judge[fn] and went to war. The LORD gave Cushan-Rishathaim king of Aram into the hands of Othniel, who overpowered him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:12 - Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and because they did this evil the LORD gave Eglon king of Moab power over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:13 - Getting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join him, Eglon came and attacked Israel, and they took possession of the City of Palms.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:14 - The Israelites were subject to Eglon king of Moab for eighteen years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:15 - Again the Israelites cried out to the LORD, and he gave them a deliverer—Ehud, a left-handed man, the son of Gera the Benjamite. The Israelites sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:27 - When he arrived there, he blew a trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went down with him from the hills, with him leading them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:30 - That day Moab was made subject to Israel, and the land had peace for eighty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 3:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 3:31 - After Ehud came Shamgar son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad. He too saved Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:1 - Again the Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, now that Ehud was dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:3 - Because he had nine hundred chariots fitted with iron and had cruelly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years, they cried to the LORD for help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:4 - Now Deborah, a prophet, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading[fn] Israel at that time.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites went up to her to have their disputes decided.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:6 - She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead them up to Mount Tabor.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:23 - On that day God subdued Jabin king of Canaan before the Israelites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:24 - And the hand of the Israelites pressed harder and harder against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:2 - “When the princes in Israel take the lead, when the people willingly offer themselves— praise the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:3 - “Hear this, you kings! Listen, you rulers! I, even I, will sing to[fn] the LORD; I will praise the LORD, the God of Israel, in song.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:5 - The mountains quaked before the LORD, the One of Sinai, before the LORD, the God of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:7 - Villagers in Israel would not fight; they held back until I, Deborah, arose, until I arose, a mother in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:8 - God chose new leaders when war came to the city gates, but not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:9 - My heart is with Israel’s princes, with the willing volunteers among the people. Praise the LORD!

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 - the voice of the singers[fn] at the watering places. They recite the victories of the LORD, the victories of his villagers in Israel. “Then the people of the LORD went down to the city gates.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:1 - The Israelites did evil in the eyes of the LORD, and for seven years he gave them into the hands of the Midianites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:2 - Because the power of Midian was so oppressive, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in mountain clefts, caves and strongholds.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:3 - Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites and other eastern peoples invaded the country.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:4 - They camped on the land and ruined the crops all the way to Gaza and did not spare a living thing for Israel, neither sheep nor cattle nor donkeys.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:6 - Midian so impoverished the Israelites that they cried out to the LORD for help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:7 - When the Israelites cried out to the LORD because of Midian,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:8 - he sent them a prophet, who said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:14 - The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian’s hand. Am I not sending you?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:15 - “Pardon me, my lord,” Gideon replied, “but how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:36 - Gideon said to God, “If you will save Israel by my hand as you have promised—

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:37

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:37 - look, I will place a wool fleece on the threshing floor. If there is dew only on the fleece and all the ground is dry, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you said.”

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