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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 17:45: "of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied."
1 Samuel 17:46: "may know that there is a God in Israel."
1 Samuel 17:52: "And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued"
1 Samuel 17:53: "And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they spoiled"
1 Samuel 18:6: "came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing,"
1 Samuel 18:16: "But all Israel and Judah loved David, because"
1 Samuel 18:18: "or my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?"
1 Samuel 19:5: "a great salvation for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice: wherefore then wilt thou sin"
1 Samuel 20:12: "David, O LORD God of Israel, I have sounded my father"
1 Samuel 23:10: "David, O LORD God of Israel, thy servant hath certainly heard"
1 Samuel 23:11: "hath heard? O LORD God of Israel, I beseech thee, tell thy servant. And the LORD"
1 Samuel 23:17: "thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel, and I shall be next unto thee; and that"
1 Samuel 24:2: "chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek"
1 Samuel 24:14: "After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom"
1 Samuel 24:20: "that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel in thine hand."
1 Samuel 25:1: "And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried"
1 Samuel 25:30: "thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;"
1 Samuel 25:32: "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, sent thee this day"
1 Samuel 25:34: "For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back"
1 Samuel 26:2: "chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David"
1 Samuel 26:15: "a valiant man? is like to thee in Israel? wherefore then hast thou not kept"
1 Samuel 26:20: "the face for the king of Israel is come out to seek"
1 Samuel 27:1: "me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand."
1 Samuel 27:12: "David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor my servant"
1 Samuel 28:1: "their armies to fight with Israel. And Achish said unto David,"
1 Samuel 28:3: "Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah,"
1 Samuel 28:4: "and pitched in Shunem: and Saul gathered all Israel together, gathered all Israel together,"
1 Samuel 28:19: "the LORD will also deliver Israel with thee into the hand and tomorrow"
1 Samuel 28:19: "shall deliver the host of Israel into the hand of the Philistines."
1 Samuel 29:1: "all their armies to Aphek: and the Israelites by a fountain which is in Jezreel."
1 Samuel 29:3: "the servant of Saul the king of Israel, which hath been with me these"
1 Samuel 30:25: "so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel this"
1 Samuel 31:1: "Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before"
1 Samuel 31:1: "fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before"
1 Samuel 31:7: "And when the men of Israel that were on the other side of the valley, and they that were on the other side"
1 Samuel 31:7: "saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons"
2 Samuel 1:3: "unto him, From whence comest thou? And he said unto him, Out of the camp of Israel am I escaped."
2 Samuel 1:12: "of the LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword."
2 Samuel 1:19: "The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places: how are the mighty"
2 Samuel 1:24: "Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet,"
2 Samuel 2:9: "Benjamin, and over all Israel."
2 Samuel 2:10: "old when he began to reign Israel, and reigned two years. But"
2 Samuel 2:17: "day; and Abner and the men of Israel, before the servants of David."
2 Samuel 2:28: "stood still, and pursued Israel no more, neither fought"
2 Samuel 3:10: "the throne over Israel and over Judah, from Dan"
2 Samuel 3:12: "thee, to bring about all Israel unto"
2 Samuel 3:17: "communication with the elders of Israel, saying, for"
2 Samuel 3:18: "I will save my people Israel out of the hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand"
2 Samuel 3:19: "all that seemed good to Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house"
2 Samuel 3:21: "and will gather all Israel unto my lord the king, that they may make"









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