Strong's #3479: Yisra'el (pronounced yis-raw-ale')

(Aramaic) corresponding to 3478:--Israel.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

ׂ (Aramaic)

yiśrâ'êl

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

2a) the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

2b) the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

2c) the name of the nation after the return from exile

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Relation: corresponding to H3478

Usage:

This word is used 8 times:

 

Ezra 5:1: "and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto"
Ezra 5:11: "ago, which a great king of Israel built and set up."
Ezra 6:14: "it, according to the commandment of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius,"
Ezra 6:16: "And the children of Israel, the priests, and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept"
Ezra 6:17: "and for a sin offering for Israel, twelve he goats,"
Ezra 6:17: "twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel."
Ezra 7:13: "all they of the people of Israel, and of his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own freewill"
Ezra 7:15: "and his counselors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation is in Jerusalem,"