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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:

ׂ

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 11:7: "and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever"
1 Samuel 11:8: "And when he numbered them in Bezek, the children of Israel were three hundred"
1 Samuel 11:13: "the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel."
1 Samuel 11:15: "the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly."
1 Samuel 12:1: "said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened in all"
1 Samuel 13:1: "two years Israel,"
1 Samuel 13:2: "chose him three thousand men of Israel; men of Israel; whereof two thousand were"
1 Samuel 13:4: "And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten"
1 Samuel 13:4: "of the Philistines, and that Israel also was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people"
1 Samuel 13:5: "gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand and six"
1 Samuel 13:6: "When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people"
1 Samuel 13:13: "thy kingdom upon Israel forever."
1 Samuel 13:19: "found throughout all the land of Israel: for said, Lest"
1 Samuel 13:20: "But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man"
1 Samuel 14:12: "after me: for the LORD hath delivered them into the hand of Israel."
1 Samuel 14:18: "at that time with the children of Israel."
1 Samuel 14:21: "also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan."
1 Samuel 14:22: "Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard"
1 Samuel 14:23: "So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle"
1 Samuel 14:24: "And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured"
1 Samuel 14:37: "the Philistines? wilt thou deliver of Israel? But he answered him not that day."
1 Samuel 14:39: "liveth, which saveth Israel, though in Jonathan"
1 Samuel 14:40: "Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one"
1 Samuel 14:41: "unto the LORD God of Israel, Give lot. And Saul and Jonathan"
1 Samuel 14:45: "this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not"
1 Samuel 14:47: "took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all on every side,"
1 Samuel 14:48: "the Amalekites, and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that spoiled"
1 Samuel 15:1: "over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words"
1 Samuel 15:2: "which did to Israel, how he laid wait for him in the way, when he came up"
1 Samuel 15:6: "kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt."
1 Samuel 15:17: "made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the LORD anointed thee king over"
1 Samuel 15:17: "anointed thee king over Israel?"
1 Samuel 15:26: "thee from being king over Israel."
1 Samuel 15:28: "hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given"
1 Samuel 15:29: "And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent:"
1 Samuel 15:30: "the elders and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD"
1 Samuel 15:35: "that he had made Saul king over Israel."
1 Samuel 16:1: "seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn"
1 Samuel 17:2: "And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah,"
1 Samuel 17:3: "on a mountain on the one side, and Israel stood a mountain"
1 Samuel 17:8: "and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them, Why to set your battle"
1 Samuel 17:10: "defy the armies of Israel day; give me a man,"
1 Samuel 17:11: "When Saul and all Israel heard those words"
1 Samuel 17:19: "and they, and all the men of Israel, were in the valley of Elah, with"
1 Samuel 17:21: " For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army."
1 Samuel 17:24: "And all the men of Israel, when they saw the man, fled"
1 Samuel 17:25: "And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up?"
1 Samuel 17:25: "to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who"
1 Samuel 17:25: "his father's house free in Israel."
1 Samuel 17:26: "and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this"









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