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Lexicon :: Strong's H3478 - yiśrā'ēl

Aa
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 2,507 times in 2,231 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 10 / 45 (Num 33:51–Deu 25:6)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:51 - “Speak to the sons of Israel H3478 and say to them, ‘When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:2 - “Command the sons of Israel H3478 and say to them, ‘When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:13 - So Moses commanded the sons of Israel, H3478 saying, “This is the land that you are to apportion by lot among you as a possession, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:29 - These are those whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the sons of Israel H3478 in the land of Canaan.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:2 - “Command the sons of Israel H3478 that they give to the Levites from the inheritance of their possession cities to live in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands around the cities.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:8 - “As for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the sons of Israel, H3478 you shall take more from the larger and you shall take less from the smaller; each shall give some of his cities to the Levites in proportion to his possession which he inherits.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:10 - “Speak to the sons of Israel H3478 and say to them, ‘When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:15 - ‘These six cities shall be for refuge for the sons of Israel, H3478 and for the alien and for the sojourner among them; that anyone who [fn]kills a person unintentionally may flee there.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:34 - ‘You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell; for I the LORD am dwelling in the midst of the sons of Israel.’” H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:1 - And the heads of the fathers’ households of the family of the sons of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the leaders, the heads of the fathers’ households of the sons of Israel, H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:2 - and they said, “The LORD commanded my lord to give the land by lot to the sons of Israel H3478 as an inheritance, and my lord was commanded by the LORD to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:3 - “But if they [fn]marry one of the sons of the other tribes of the sons of Israel, H3478 their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of our fathers and will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; thus it will be withdrawn from our allotted inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:4 - “When the jubilee of the sons of Israel H3478 [fn]comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe to which they belong; so their inheritance will be withdrawn from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:5 - Then Moses commanded the sons of Israel H3478 according to the [fn]word of the LORD, saying, “The tribe of the sons of Joseph are right in their statements.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:7 - “Thus no inheritance of the sons of Israel H3478 shall [fn]be transferred from tribe to tribe, for the sons of Israel H3478 shall each [fn]hold to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:8 - “Every daughter who comes into possession of an inheritance of any tribe of the sons of Israel H3478 shall be wife to one of the family of the tribe of her father, so that the sons of Israel H3478 each may possess the inheritance of his fathers.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:9 - “Thus no inheritance shall [fn]be transferred from one tribe to another tribe, for the tribes of the sons of Israel H3478 shall each [fn]hold to his own inheritance.”
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 36:13 - These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded to the sons of Israel H3478 through Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:1 - These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel H3478 across the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah opposite [fn]Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:3 - In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the children of Israel, H3478 according to all that the LORD had commanded him to give to them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:38 - ‘Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, he shall enter there; encourage him, for he will cause Israel H3478 to inherit it.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:12 - The Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel H3478 did to the land of [fn]their possession which the LORD gave to them.)
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:18 - “Then I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it; all you valiant men shall cross over armed before your brothers, the sons of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:1 - “Now, O Israel, H3478 listen to the statutes and the judgments which I am teaching you to perform, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land which the LORD, the God of your fathers, is giving you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:44 - Now this is the law which Moses set before the sons of Israel; H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:45 - these are the testimonies and the statutes and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the sons of Israel, H3478 when they came out from Egypt,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:46 - across the Jordan, in the valley opposite Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon, whom Moses and the sons of Israel H3478 [fn]defeated when they came out from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:1 - Then Moses summoned all Israel H3478 and said to them: “Hear, O Israel, H3478 the statutes and the ordinances which I am speaking today in your [fn]hearing, that you may learn them and observe [fn]them carefully.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - “O Israel, H3478 you should listen and [fn]be careful to do it, that it may be well with you and that you may multiply greatly, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:4 - “Hear, O Israel! H3478 The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 - “Hear, O Israel! H3478 You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than you, great cities [fn]fortified to heaven,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:6 - (Now the sons of Israel H3478 set out from [fn]Beeroth Bene-jaakan to Moserah. There Aaron died and there he was buried and Eleazar his son ministered as priest in his place.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:12 - “Now, Israel, H3478 what does the LORD your God require from you, but to [fn]fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:6 - and what He did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben, when the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them, their households, their tents, and every living thing that [fn]followed them, among all Israel H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:11 - “Then all Israel H3478 will hear and be afraid, and will never again do such a wicked thing among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:4 - and if it is told you and you have heard of it, then you shall inquire thoroughly. Behold, if it is true and the thing certain that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:12 - “The man who acts presumptuously by not listening to the priest who stands there to serve the LORD your God, nor to the judge, that man shall die; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:20 - that his heart may not be lifted up above his [fn]countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:1 - “The Levitical priests, the whole tribe of Levi, shall have no portion or inheritance with Israel; H3478 they shall eat the LORDS offerings by fire and His [fn]portion.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:6 - “Now if a Levite comes from any of your [fn]towns throughout Israel H3478 where he resides, and comes [fn]whenever he desires to the place which the LORD chooses,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:13 - [fn]You shall not pity him, but you shall purge the blood of the innocent from Israel, H3478 that it may go well with you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:3 - “He shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel, H3478 you are approaching the battle against your enemies today. Do not be fainthearted. Do not be afraid, or panic, or tremble before them,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:8 - [fn]Forgive Your people Israel H3478 whom You have redeemed, O LORD, and do not place the guilt of innocent blood in the midst of Your people Israel.’ H3478 And the bloodguiltiness shall be [fn]forgiven them.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 21:21 - “Then all the men of his city shall stone him to death; so you shall remove the evil from your midst, and all Israel H3478 will hear of it and fear.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:19 - and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give it to the girl’s father, because he [fn]publicly defamed a virgin of Israel. H3478 And she shall remain his wife; he cannot [fn]divorce her all his days.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:21 - then they shall bring out the girl to the doorway of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her [fn]to death because she has committed an act of folly in Israel H3478 by playing the harlot in her father’s house; thus you shall purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 22:22 - “If a man is found lying with a married woman, then both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman; thus you shall purge the evil from Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 23:17 - “None of the daughters of Israel H3478 shall be a cult prostitute, nor shall any of the sons of Israel H3478 be a cult prostitute.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 24:7 - “If a man is [fn]caught kidnapping any of his [fn]countrymen of the sons of Israel, H3478 and he deals with him violently or sells him, then that thief shall die; so you shall purge the evil from among you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:6 - “It shall be that the firstborn whom she bears shall [fn]assume the name of his dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel. H3478

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