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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 19 / 45 (1Sa 14:37–1Sa 27:1)

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:37 - Saul inquired of God, “Shall I go down after the Philistines? Will You give them into the hand of Israel?” H3478 But He did not answer him on that day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:39 - “For as the LORD lives, who delivers Israel, H3478 though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But not one of all the people answered him.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:40 - Then he said to all Israel, H3478 “You shall be on one side and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side.” And the people said to Saul, “Do what seems good [fn]to you.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:41 - Therefore, Saul said to the LORD, the God of Israel, H3478 “Give a perfect lot.” And Jonathan and Saul were taken, but the people escaped.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:45 - But the people said to Saul, “Must Jonathan die, who has [fn]brought about this great deliverance in Israel? H3478 Far from it! As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day.” So the people [fn]rescued Jonathan and he did not die.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:47 - Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, H3478 he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, the sons of Ammon, Edom, the kings of Zobah, and the Philistines; and wherever he turned, he [fn]inflicted punishment.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:48 - He acted valiantly and [fn]defeated the Amalekites, and delivered Israel H3478 from the hands of [fn]those who plundered them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:1 - Then Samuel said to Saul, “The LORD sent me to anoint you as king over His people, over Israel; H3478 now therefore, listen to the [fn]words of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:2 - “Thus says the LORD of hosts, ‘I will [fn]punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, H3478 how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:6 - Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, so that I do not destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the sons of Israel H3478 when they came up from Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:17 - Samuel said, “Is it not true, though you were little in your own eyes, you were made the head of the tribes of Israel? H3478 And the LORD anointed you king over Israel, H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:26 - But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you; for you have rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD has rejected you from being king over Israel.” H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:28 - So Samuel said to him, “The LORD has torn the kingdom of Israel H3478 from you today and has given it to your neighbor, who is better than you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:29 - “Also the [fn]Glory of Israel H3478 will not lie or change His mind; for He is not a man that He should change His mind.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:30 - Then he said, “I have sinned; but please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel, H3478 and go back with me, that I may worship the LORD your God.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:35 - Samuel did not see Saul again until the day of his death; for Samuel grieved over Saul. And the LORD regretted that He had made Saul king over Israel. H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 16:1 - Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long will you grieve over Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? H3478 Fill your horn with oil and go; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite, for I have selected a king for Myself among his sons.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:2 - Saul and the men of Israel H3478 were gathered and camped in the valley of Elah, and drew up in battle array to encounter the Philistines.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:3 - The Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel H3478 stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:8 - He stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel H3478 and said to them, “Why do you come out to draw up in battle array? Am I not the Philistine and you servants of Saul? Choose a man for yourselves and let him come down to me.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:10 - Again the Philistine said, “I defy the ranks of Israel H3478 this day; give me a man that we may fight together.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:11 - When Saul and all Israel H3478 heard these words of the Philistine, they were dismayed and greatly afraid.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:19 - “For Saul and they and all the men of Israel H3478 are in the valley of Elah, fighting with the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:21 - Israel H3478 and the Philistines drew up in battle array, army against army.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:24 - When all the men of Israel H3478 saw the man, they fled from him and were greatly afraid.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:25 - The men of Israel H3478 said, “Have you seen this man who is coming up? Surely he is coming up to defy Israel. H3478 And it will be that the king will enrich the man who kills him with great riches and will give him his daughter and make his father’s house [fn]free in Israel.” H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:26 - Then David spoke to the men who were standing by him, saying, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and takes away the reproach from Israel? H3478 For who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should taunt the armies of the living God?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:45 - Then David said to the Philistine, “You come to me with a sword, a spear, and a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, H3478 whom you have taunted.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:46 - “This day the LORD will deliver you up into my hands, and I will strike you down and remove your head from you. And I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines this day to the birds of the sky and the wild beasts of the earth, that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:52 - The men of Israel H3478 and Judah arose and shouted and pursued the Philistines [fn]as far as the valley, and to the gates of Ekron. And the slain Philistines [fn]lay along the way to Shaaraim, even to Gath and Ekron.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:53 - The sons of Israel H3478 returned from chasing the Philistines and plundered their camps.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:6 - It happened as they were coming, when David returned from killing the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, H3478 singing and dancing, to meet King Saul, with tambourines, with joy and with [fn]musical instruments.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:16 - But all Israel H3478 and Judah loved David, and he went out and came in before them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 18:18 - But David said to Saul, “Who am I, and what is my life or my father’s family in Israel, H3478 that I should be the king’s son-in-law?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:5 - “For he took his life in his hand and struck the Philistine, and the LORD brought about a great deliverance for all Israel; H3478 you saw it and rejoiced. Why then will you sin against innocent blood by putting David to death without a cause?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:12 - Then Jonathan said to David, “The LORD, the God of Israel, H3478 be witness! When I have sounded out my father about this time tomorrow, or the third day, behold, if there is good feeling toward David, shall I not then send to you and [fn]make it known to you?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:10 - Then David said, “O LORD God of Israel, H3478 Your servant has heard for certain that Saul is seeking to come to Keilah to destroy the city on my account.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:11 - “Will the men of Keilah surrender me into his hand? Will Saul come down just as Your servant has heard? O LORD God of Israel, H3478 I pray, tell Your servant.” And the LORD said, “He will come down.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:17 - Thus he said to him, “Do not be afraid, because the hand of Saul my father will not find you, and you will be king over Israel H3478 and I will be next to you; and Saul my father knows that also.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:2 - Then Saul took three thousand chosen men from all Israel H3478 and went to seek David and his men in front of the Rocks of the Wild Goats.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:14 - “After whom has the king of Israel H3478 come out? Whom are you pursuing? A dead dog, a single flea?
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:20 - “Now, behold, I know that you will surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel H3478 will be established in your hand.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1 - Then Samuel died; and all Israel H3478 gathered together and mourned for him, and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:30 - “And when the LORD does for my lord according to all the good that He has spoken concerning you, and appoints you ruler over Israel, H3478
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:32 - Then David said to Abigail, “Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, H3478 who sent you this day to meet me,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:34 - “Nevertheless, as the LORD God of Israel H3478 lives, who has restrained me from harming you, unless you had come quickly to meet me, surely there would not have been left to Nabal until the morning light as much as one [fn]male.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:2 - So Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having with him three thousand chosen men of Israel, H3478 to search for David in the wilderness of Ziph.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:15 - So David said to Abner, “Are you not a man? And who is like you in Israel? H3478 Why then have you not guarded your lord the king? For one of the people came to destroy the king your lord.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:20 - “Now then, do not let my blood fall to the ground away from the presence of the LORD; for the king of Israel H3478 has come out to search for a single flea, just as one hunts a partridge in the mountains.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 27:1 - Then David said [fn]to himself, “Now I will perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than [fn]to escape into the land of the Philistines. Saul then will despair of searching for me anymore in all the territory of Israel, H3478 and I will escape from his hand.”

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