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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 17 / 45 (Jdg 20:25–1Sa 5:8)

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:25 - And Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel H3478 again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:26 - Then all the children of Israel, H3478 and all the people, went up, and came unto the house of God, and wept, and sat there before the LORD, and fasted that day until even, and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:27 - And the children of Israel H3478 enquired of the LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:29 - And Israel H3478 set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:30 - And the children of Israel H3478 went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:31 - And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:32 - And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel H3478 said, Let us flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:33 - And all the men of Israel H3478 rose up out of their place, and put themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel H3478 came forth out of their places, even out of the meadows of Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:34 - And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, H3478 and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:35 - And the LORD smote Benjamin before Israel: H3478 and the children of Israel H3478 destroyed of the Benjamites that day twenty and five thousand and an hundred men: all these drew the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:36 - So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel H3478 gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:38 - Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel H3478 and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:39 - And when the men of Israel H3478 retired in the battle, Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel H3478 about thirty persons: for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:41 - And when the men of Israel H3478 turned again, the men of Benjamin were amazed: for they saw that evil was come upon them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:42 - Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel H3478 unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle overtook them; and them which came out of the cities they destroyed in the midst of them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - And the men of Israel H3478 turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:1 - Now the men of Israel H3478 had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:3 - And said, O LORD God of Israel, H3478 why is this come to pass in Israel, H3478 that there should be to day one tribe lacking in Israel? H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:5 - And the children of Israel H3478 said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel H3478 that came not up with the congregation unto the LORD? For they had made a great oath concerning him that came not up to the LORD to Mizpeh, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:6 - And the children of Israel H3478 repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel H3478 this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:8 - And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel H3478 that came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:15 - And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:17 - And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:18 - Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the children of Israel H3478 have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:24 - And the children of Israel H3478 departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 21:25 - In those days there was no king in Israel: H3478 every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:12 - The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, H3478 under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:7 - Now this was the manner in former time in Israel H3478 concerning redeeming and concerning changing, for to confirm all things; a man plucked off his shoe, and gave it to his neighbour: and this was a testimony in Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:11 - And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: H3478 and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:14 - And the women said unto Naomi, Blessed be the LORD, which hath not left thee this day without a kinsman, that his name may be famous in Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:17 - Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel H3478 grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:14 - And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites H3478 that came thither.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22 - Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; H3478 and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:28 - And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel H3478 to be my priest, to offer upon mine altar, to burn incense, to wear an ephod before me? and did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel? H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:29 - Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel H3478 my people?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:30 - Wherefore the LORD God of Israel H3478 saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:32 - And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: H3478 and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:11 - And the LORD said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, H3478 at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:20 - And all Israel H3478 from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:1 - And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. H3478 Now Israel H3478 went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Ebenezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:2 - And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel: H3478 and when they joined battle, Israel H3478 was smitten before the Philistines: and they slew of the army in the field about four thousand men.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:3 - And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel H3478 said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:5 - And when the ark of the covenant of the LORD came into the camp, all Israel H3478 shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:10 - And the Philistines fought, and Israel H3478 was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel H3478 thirty thousand footmen.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:17 - And the messenger answered and said, Israel H3478 is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel H3478 forty years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:21 - And she named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel: H3478 because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father in law and her husband.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:22 - And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: H3478 for the ark of God is taken.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:7 - And when the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel H3478 shall not abide with us: for his hand is sore upon us, and upon Dagon our god.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 5:8 - They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? H3478 And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel H3478 be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel H3478 about thither.

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