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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:

2 Samuel 15:13: "saying, The hearts of the men of Israel are after Absalom."
2 Samuel 16:3: "he said, Today shall the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father."
2 Samuel 16:15: "and all the people the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, with"
2 Samuel 16:18: "people, and all the men of Israel, choose, his will I be, and with him will I abide."
2 Samuel 16:21: "to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of"
2 Samuel 16:22: "concubines in the sight of all Israel."
2 Samuel 17:4: "well, and all the elders of Israel."
2 Samuel 17:10: "of a lion, for all Israel knoweth that"
2 Samuel 17:11: "Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto"
2 Samuel 17:13: "into a city, then shall all Israel bring to that"
2 Samuel 17:14: "And Absalom and all the men of Israel said, The counsel of Hushai"
2 Samuel 17:15: "Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counseled."
2 Samuel 17:24: "and all the men of Israel with"
2 Samuel 17:26: " So Israel and Absalom pitched in the land of Gilead."
2 Samuel 18:6: "went out into the field against Israel: and the battle was of Ephraim;"
2 Samuel 18:7: "Where the people of Israel were slain before the servants of David,"
2 Samuel 18:16: "returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back"
2 Samuel 18:17: "of stones upon him: and all Israel fled every one to his tent."
2 Samuel 19:8: "came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent."
2 Samuel 19:9: "at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, The king saved us out of the hand"
2 Samuel 19:11: "his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to"
2 Samuel 19:22: "unto me? shall there any man be put to death this day in Israel? for do not I know that"
2 Samuel 19:22: "am this day king over Israel?"
2 Samuel 19:40: "and also half the people of Israel."
2 Samuel 19:41: "And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king,"
2 Samuel 19:42: "of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because is near of kin"
2 Samuel 19:43: "And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said,"
2 Samuel 19:43: "were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel."
2 Samuel 20:1: "of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel."
2 Samuel 20:2: "So every man of Israel went up from after David, and followed"
2 Samuel 20:14: "And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maachah, and all"
2 Samuel 20:19: "I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy"
2 Samuel 20:19: "to destroy and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?"
2 Samuel 20:23: "was over all the host of Israel: and Benaiah the son was over"
2 Samuel 21:2: "them; (now the Gibeonites were not of Israel, but of the remnant"
2 Samuel 21:2: "but of the remnant of the Amorites; and the children of Israel had sworn"
2 Samuel 21:2: "had sworn unto them: and Saul sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah.)"
2 Samuel 21:4: "neither for us shalt thou kill any man in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say,"
2 Samuel 21:5: "from remaining in any of the coasts of Israel,"
2 Samuel 21:15: "had yet war again with Israel; and David went down, with"
2 Samuel 21:17: "not the light of Israel."
2 Samuel 21:21: "And when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea the brother"
2 Samuel 23:1: "of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said,"
2 Samuel 23:3: "The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that ruleth over"
2 Samuel 23:3: "of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spoke to me, He that ruleth over must be just,"
2 Samuel 23:9: "that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:"
2 Samuel 24:1: "the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved against them to say,"
2 Samuel 24:1: "Go, number Israel and Judah."
2 Samuel 24:2: "now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan even to Beer-sheba,"
2 Samuel 24:4: "to number the people of Israel."









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