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Strong's #3478: Yisra'el (pronounced yis-raw-ale')

from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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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: from H8280 and H410



Usage:

This word is used 2505 times:

1 Samuel 4:5: "into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth"
1 Samuel 4:10: "And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent:"
1 Samuel 4:10: "great slaughter; for there fell of Israel of Israel thirty thousand footmen."
1 Samuel 4:17: "And the messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines,"
1 Samuel 4:18: "and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years."
1 Samuel 4:21: "saying, The glory is departed from Israel: from Israel: the ark of God"
1 Samuel 4:22: "And she said, The glory is departed from Israel: from Israel: for the ark of God"
1 Samuel 5:7: "they said, The ark of Israel shall not abide with us: for"
1 Samuel 5:8: "shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel"
1 Samuel 5:8: "And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried"
1 Samuel 5:8: "the ark of the God of Israel"
1 Samuel 5:10: "the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people."
1 Samuel 5:11: "the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to his own place, that it slay us not,"
1 Samuel 6:3: "the ark of the God of Israel, it not empty; but"
1 Samuel 6:5: "and ye shall give glory unto the God of Israel: peradventure he will lighten his hand"
1 Samuel 7:2: "twenty years: and all the house of Israel lamented after the LORD."
1 Samuel 7:3: "unto all the house of Israel, saying, ye do return"
1 Samuel 7:4: "Then the children of Israel did put away Baalim and Ashtaroth, and served"
1 Samuel 7:5: "Gather all Israel to Mizpeh, for you unto"
1 Samuel 7:6: "judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh."
1 Samuel 7:7: "heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpeh, of the Philistines"
1 Samuel 7:7: "of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid"
1 Samuel 7:7: "against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of"
1 Samuel 7:8: "And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not"
1 Samuel 7:9: "unto the LORD for Israel; and the LORD heard"
1 Samuel 7:10: "the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder"
1 Samuel 7:10: "and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel."
1 Samuel 7:11: "And the men of Israel went out of Mizpeh, and pursued"
1 Samuel 7:13: "no more into the coast of Israel: of the LORD was"
1 Samuel 7:14: "the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored from Ekron"
1 Samuel 7:14: "from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto"
1 Samuel 7:14: "from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands"
1 Samuel 7:14: "out of the hands of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites."
1 Samuel 7:15: "And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life."
1 Samuel 7:16: "and Gilgal, and judged Israel in all those"
1 Samuel 7:17: "and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the LORD."
1 Samuel 8:1: "his sons over Israel."
1 Samuel 8:4: "Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel"
1 Samuel 8:22: "said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city."
1 Samuel 9:2: "and a goodly: and there was not of Israel a goodlier person than"
1 Samuel 9:9: "(Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus"
1 Samuel 9:16: "and thou shalt anoint over my people Israel, that he may save my people"
1 Samuel 9:20: "And on whom is all the desire of Israel? Is it not on thee, and on all thy father's house?"
1 Samuel 9:21: "a Benjamite, of the smallest of Israel? and my family the least of all"
1 Samuel 10:18: "I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand"
1 Samuel 10:18: "And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the LORD"
1 Samuel 10:18: "saith the LORD of Israel, I brought up Israel"
1 Samuel 10:20: "had caused all the tribes of Israel to come near, the tribe was taken."
1 Samuel 11:2: "and lay it for a reproach upon all Israel."
1 Samuel 11:3: "messengers unto all the coasts of Israel: and then, if there be no man to save us, we will come out"









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