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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:

Malachi 1:1: "of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi."
Malachi 1:5: "will be magnified from of Israel."
Malachi 2:11: "hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for hath profaned"
Malachi 2:16: "For the LORD, the God of Israel, saith that he hateth putting away:"
Malachi 4:4: "him in Horeb all Israel, with the statutes and judgments."









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