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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 9 / 45 (Num 24:17–Num 33:40)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:17 - I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, H3478 and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 24:18 - And Edom shall be a possession, Seir also shall be a possession for his enemies; and Israel H3478 shall do valiantly.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:1 - And Israel H3478 abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:3 - And Israel H3478 joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:4 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger of the LORD may be turned away from Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:5 - And Moses said unto the judges of Israel, H3478 Slay ye every one his men that were joined unto Baalpeor.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:6 - And, behold, one of the children of Israel H3478 came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:8 - And he went after the man of Israel H3478 into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, H3478 and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:11 - Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, H3478 while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel H3478 in my jealousy.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:13 - And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 25:14 - Now the name of the Israelite H3478 that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:2 - Take the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 from twenty years old and upward, throughout their fathers' house, all that are able to go to war in Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:4 - Take the sum of the people, from twenty years old and upward; as the LORD commanded Moses and the children of Israel, H3478 which went forth out of the land of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:5 - Reuben, the eldest son of Israel: H3478 the children of Reuben; Hanoch, of whom cometh the family of the Hanochites: of Pallu, the family of the Palluites:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:51 - These were the numbered of the children of Israel, H3478 six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, H3478 because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:63 - These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel H3478 in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:64 - But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel H3478 in the wilderness of Sinai.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:8 - And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, H3478 saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:11 - And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel H3478 a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:12 - And the LORD said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:20 - And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel H3478 may be obedient.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 27:21 - And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest, who shall ask counsel for him after the judgment of Urim before the LORD: at his word shall they go out, and at his word they shall come in, both he, and all the children of Israel H3478 with him, even all the congregation.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:2 - Command the children of Israel, H3478 and say unto them, My offering, and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire, for a sweet savour unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:40 - And Moses told the children of Israel H3478 according to all that the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 30:1 - And Moses spake unto the heads of the tribes concerning the children of Israel, H3478 saying, This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:2 - Avenge the children of Israel H3478 of the Midianites: afterward shalt thou be gathered unto thy people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:4 - Of every tribe a thousand, throughout all the tribes of Israel, H3478 shall ye send to the war.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:5 - So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, H3478 a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:9 - And the children of Israel H3478 took all the women of Midian captives, and their little ones, and took the spoil of all their cattle, and all their flocks, and all their goods.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:12 - And they brought the captives, and the prey, and the spoil, unto Moses, and Eleazar the priest, and unto the congregation of the children of Israel, H3478 unto the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by Jordan near Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:16 - Behold, these caused the children of Israel, H3478 through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:30 - And of the children of Israel's H3478 half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:42 - And of the children of Israel's H3478 half, which Moses divided from the men that warred,
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:47 - Even of the children of Israel's H3478 half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:54 - And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel H3478 before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:4 - Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, H3478 is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:7 - And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel H3478 from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:9 - For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, H3478 that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, H3478 and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, H3478 until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:18 - We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel H3478 have inherited every man his inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; H3478 and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:28 - So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: H3478
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:1 - These are the journeys of the children of Israel, H3478 which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:3 - And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel H3478 went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:5 - And the children of Israel H3478 removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:38 - And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel H3478 were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:40 - And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. H3478

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