יִשְׂרָאֵל
Israel
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- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
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- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3478 appears in the Book of Judges — 154 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Judges
- Judges 1:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, Who shall go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?
- Judges 1:28 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper It happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.
- Judges 2:4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper It happened, when the angel of Yahweh spoke these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
- Judges 2:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel went every man to his inheritance to possess the land.
- Judges 2:7 לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.
- Judges 2:10 לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper Also all that generation were gathered to their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, who didn't know Yahweh, nor yet the work which he had worked for Israel.
- Judges 2:11 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals;
- Judges 2:14 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל prep + n Proper The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers who despoiled them; and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
- Judges 2:20 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל prep + n Proper The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel; and he said, Because this nation have transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not listened to my voice;
- Judges 2:22 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper that by them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of Yahweh to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
- Judges 3:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper Now these are the nations which Yahweh left, to prove Israel by them, even as many [of Israel] as had not known all the wars of Canaan;
- Judges 3:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing of it:
- Judges 3:4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper They were [left], to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would listen to the commandments of Yahweh, which he commanded their fathers by Moses.
- Judges 3:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper The children of Israel lived among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
- Judges 3:7 יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל n Proper The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
- Judges 3:8 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל prep + n Proper n Proper Therefore the anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Cushan Rishathaim eight years.
- Judges 3:9 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper n Proper When the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised up a savior to the children of Israel, who saved them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
- Judges 3:10 יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ n Proper The Spirit of Yahweh came on him, and he judged Israel; and he went out to war, and Yahweh delivered Cushan Rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand: and his hand prevailed against Cushan Rishathaim.
- Judges 3:12 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper n Proper The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
- Judges 3:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper He gathered to him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and struck Israel, and they possessed the city of palm trees.
- Judges 3:14 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper The children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
- Judges 3:15 יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל n Proper n Proper But when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh, Yahweh raised them up a savior, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. The children of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
- Judges 3:27 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he before them.
- Judges 3:30 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. The land had rest eighty years.
- Judges 3:31 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad: and he also saved Israel.
- Judges 4:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, when Ehud was dead.
- Judges 4:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper n Proper The children of Israel cried to Yahweh: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.
- Judges 4:4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, she judged Israel at that time.
- Judges 4:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper She lived under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill-country of Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.
- Judges 4:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Hasn't Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded, [saying], Go and draw to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun?
- Judges 4:23 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel.
- Judges 4:24 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper The hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.
- Judges 5:2 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל prep + n Proper For that the leaders took the lead in Israel, For that the people offered themselves willingly, Bless you Yahweh.
- Judges 5:3 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Hear, you kings; give ear, you princes; I, [even] I, will sing to Yahweh; I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Judges 5:5 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper The mountains quaked at the presence of Yahweh, Even yon Sinai at the presence of Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Judges 5:7 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper prep + n Proper The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.
- Judges 5:8 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper They chose new gods; Then was war in the gates: Was there a shield or spear seen Among forty thousand in Israel?
- Judges 5:9 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper My heart is toward the governors of Israel, Who offered themselves willingly among the people: Bless you Yahweh.
- Judges 5:11 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל prep + n Proper Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.
- Judges 6:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper The children of Israel did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh: and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
- Judges 6:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper n Proper The hand of Midian prevailed against Israel; and because of Midian the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and the caves, and the strongholds.
- Judges 6:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper So it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east; they came up against them;
- Judges 6:4 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל prep + n Proper and they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, until you come to Gaza, and left no sustenance in Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor donkey.
- Judges 6:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper n Proper Israel was brought very low because of Midian; and the children of Israel cried to Yahweh.
- Judges 6:7 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper It happened, when the children of Israel cried to Yahweh because of Midian,
- Judges 6:8 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper n Proper that Yahweh sent a prophet to the children of Israel: and he said to them, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and brought you forth out of the house of bondage;
- Judges 6:14 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Yahweh looked at him, and said, Go in this your might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent you?
- Judges 6:15 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper He said to him, Oh, Lord, with which shall I save Israel? behold, my family is the poorest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.
- Judges 6:36 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Gideon said to God, If you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken,
- Judges 6:37 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there be dew on the fleece only, and it be dry on all the ground, then shall I know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.
- Judges 7:2 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper Yahweh said to Gideon, The people who are with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, My own hand has saved me.
- Judges 7:8 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper So the people took food in their hand, and their trumpets; and he sent all the men of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the three hundred men: and the camp of Midian was beneath him in the valley.
- Judges 7:14 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper His fellow answered, This is nothing else save the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel: into his hand God has delivered Midian, and all the host.
- Judges 7:15 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper It was so, when Gideon heard the telling of the dream, and the interpretation of it, that he worshiped; and he returned into the camp of Israel, and said, Arise; for Yahweh has delivered into your hand the host of Midian.
- Judges 7:23 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper The men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.
- Judges 8:22 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, Rule you over us, both you, and your son, and your son's son also; for you have saved us out of the hand of Midian.
- Judges 8:27 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper Gideon made an ephod of it, and put it in his city, even in Ophrah: and all Israel played the prostitute after it there; and it became a snare to Gideon, and to his house.
- Judges 8:28 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper So Midian was subdued before the children of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. The land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon.
- Judges 8:33 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper It happened, as soon as Gideon was dead, that the children of Israel turned again, and played the prostitute after the Baals, and made Baal Berith their god.
- Judges 8:34 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper The children of Israel didn't remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
- Judges 8:35 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper neither shown they kindness to the house of Jerubbaal, [who is] Gideon, according to all the goodness which he had shown to Israel.
- Judges 9:22 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Abimelech was prince over Israel three years.
- Judges 9:55 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper When the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his place.
- Judges 10:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived in Shamir in the hill-country of Ephraim.
- Judges 10:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper He judged Israel twenty-three years, and died, and was buried in Shamir.
- Judges 10:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper After him arose Jair, the Gileadite; and he judged Israel twenty-two years.
- Judges 10:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, and served the Baals, and the Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Sidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook Yahweh, and didn't serve him.
- Judges 10:7 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל prep + n Proper The anger of Yahweh was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.
- Judges 10:8 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper n Proper They vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years [oppressed they] all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
- Judges 10:9 לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל prep + n Proper The children of Ammon passed over the Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.
- Judges 10:10 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper The children of Israel cried to Yahweh, saying, We have sinned against you, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baals.
- Judges 10:11 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper Yahweh said to the children of Israel, Didn't I save you from the Egyptians, and from the Amorites, from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines?
- Judges 10:15 יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל n Proper The children of Israel said to Yahweh, We have sinned: do you to us whatever seems good to you; only deliver us, we pray you, this day.
- Judges 10:16 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper They put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Yahweh; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.
- Judges 10:17 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah.
- Judges 11:4 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper It happened after a while, that the children of Ammon made war against Israel.
- Judges 11:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper It was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to get Jephthah out of the land of Tob;
- Judges 11:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל n Proper The king of the children of Ammon answered to the messengers of Jephthah, Because Israel took away my land, when he came up out of Egypt, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and to the Jordan: now therefore restore those [lands] again peaceably.
- Judges 11:15 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper and he said to him, Thus says Jephthah: Israel didn't take away the land of Moab, nor the land of the children of Ammon,
- Judges 11:16 יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל n Proper but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;
- Judges 11:17 יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper n Proper then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, Please let me pass through your land; but the king of Edom didn't listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.
- Judges 11:19 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper n Proper Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray you, through your land to my place.
- Judges 11:20 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper n Proper But Sihon didn't trust Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
- Judges 11:21 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper n Proper n Proper Yahweh, the God of Israel, delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they struck them: so Israel possessed all the land of the Amorites, the inhabitants of that country.
- Judges 11:23 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper n Proper So now Yahweh, the God of Israel, has dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and should you possess them?
- Judges 11:25 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper Now are you anything better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them?
- Judges 11:26 יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל n Proper While Israel lived in Heshbon and its towns, and in Aroer and its towns, and in all the cities that are along by the side of the Arnon, three hundred years; why didn't you recover them within that time?
- Judges 11:27 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper I therefore have not sinned against you, but you do me wrong to war against me: Yahweh, the Judge, be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon.
- Judges 11:33 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper He struck them from Aroer until you come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and to Abelcheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.
- Judges 11:39 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper It happened at the end of two months, that she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she was a virgin. It was a custom in Israel,
- Judges 11:40 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper that the daughters of Israel went yearly to celebrate the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year.
- Judges 12:7 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in [one of] the cities of Gilead.
- Judges 12:8 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
- Judges 12:9 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he sent abroad, and thirty daughters he brought in from abroad for his sons. He judged Israel seven years.
- Judges 12:11 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper n Proper After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
- Judges 12:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
- Judges 12:14 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons, who rode on seventy donkey colts: and he judged Israel eight years.
- Judges 13:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper The children of Israel again did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh; and Yahweh delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
- Judges 13:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper for, behold, you shall conceive, and bear a son; and no razor shall come on his head; for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb: and he shall begin to save Israel out of the hand of the Philistines.
- Judges 14:4 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper But his father and his mother didn't know that it was of Yahweh; for he sought an occasion against the Philistines. Now at that time the Philistines had rule over Israel.
- Judges 15:20 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.
- Judges 16:31 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
- Judges 17:6 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל prep + n Proper In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
- Judges 18:1 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל prep + n Proper n Proper In those days there was no king in Israel: and in those days the tribe of the Danites sought them an inheritance to dwell in; for to that day [their] inheritance had not fallen to them among the tribes of Israel.
- Judges 18:19 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper They said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?
- Judges 18:29 לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל prep + n Proper They called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born to Israel: however the name of the city was Laish at the first.
- Judges 19:1 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל prep + n Proper It happened in those days, when there was no king in Israel, that there was a certain Levite sojourning on the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim, who took to him a concubine out of Bethlehem Judah.
- Judges 19:12 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.
- Judges 19:29 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper When he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, limb by limb, into twelve pieces, and sent her throughout all the borders of Israel.
- Judges 19:30 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper It was so, that all who saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day: consider it, take counsel, and speak.
- Judges 20:1 יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ n Proper Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah.
- Judges 20:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper The chiefs of all the people, even of all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen who drew sword.
- Judges 20:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper n Proper (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?
- Judges 20:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper prep + n Proper I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.
- Judges 20:7 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper Behold, you children of Israel, all of you, give here your advice and counsel.
- Judges 20:10 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper prep + n Proper and we will take ten men of one hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, and one hundred of one thousand, and a thousand out of ten thousand, to get food for the people, that they may do, when they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they have worked in Israel.
- Judges 20:11 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit together as one man.
- Judges 20:12 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you?
- Judges 20:13 מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper n Proper Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the children of Israel.
- Judges 20:14 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper The children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities to Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.
- Judges 20:17 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל n Proper The men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men who drew sword: all these were men of war.
- Judges 20:18 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah [shall go up] first.
- Judges 20:19 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper The children of Israel rose up in the morning, and encamped against Gibeah.
- Judges 20:20 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper n Proper The men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.
- Judges 20:21 בְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל prep + n Proper The children of Benjamin came forth out of Gibeah, and destroyed down to the ground of the Israelites on that day Twenty-two thousand men.
- Judges 20:22 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper The people, the men of Israel, encouraged themselves, and set the battle again in array in the place where they set themselves in array the first day.
- Judges 20:23 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said, Go up against him.
- Judges 20:24 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper The children of Israel came near against the children of Benjamin the second day.
- Judges 20:25 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל n Proper Benjamin went forth against them out of Gibeah the second day, and destroyed down to the ground of the children of Israel again eighteen thousand men; all these drew the sword.
- Judges 20:26 יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל n Proper Then all the children of Israel, and all the people, went up, and came to Bethel, and wept, and sat there before Yahweh, and fasted that day until even; and they offered burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Yahweh.
- Judges 20:27 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper The children of Israel asked of Yahweh (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
- Judges 20:29 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.
- Judges 20:30 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper The children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
- Judges 20:31 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper The children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to strike and kill of the people, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goes up to Bethel, and the other to Gibeah, in the field, about thirty men of Israel.
- Judges 20:32 יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל n Proper The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.
- Judges 20:33 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper n Proper All the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal Tamar: and the liers-in-wait of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh Geba.
- Judges 20:34 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper There came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they didn't know that evil was close on them.
- Judges 20:35 יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל n Proper n Proper Yahweh struck Benjamin before Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin that day twenty-five thousand one hundred men: all these drew the sword.
- Judges 20:36 יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל n Proper So the children of Benjamin saw that they were struck; for the men of Israel gave place to Benjamin, because they trusted to the liers-in-wait whom they had set against Gibeah.
- Judges 20:38 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers-in-wait was that they should make a great cloud of smoke rise up out of the city.
- Judges 20:39 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper n Proper The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.
- Judges 20:41 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper The men of Israel turned, and the men of Benjamin were dismayed; for they saw that evil had come on them.
- Judges 20:42 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel to the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and those who came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst of it.
- Judges 20:48 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל n Proper The men of Israel turned again on the children of Benjamin, and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.
- Judges 21:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.
- Judges 21:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper prep + n Proper prep + n Proper They said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?
- Judges 21:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper n Proper The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
- Judges 21:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper prep + n Proper The children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
- Judges 21:8 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper They said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah? Behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.
- Judges 21:15 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper The people repented them for Benjamin, because that Yahweh had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
- Judges 21:17 מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵֽל prep + n Proper They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
- Judges 21:18 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
- Judges 21:24 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper The children of Israel departed there at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from there every man to his inheritance.
- Judges 21:25 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל prep + n Proper In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.
About this entry
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“Israel” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name ישראל (Yisrâʼêl). Scripture first uses it in Genesis 32:28. It appears 2,231 verses across 34 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its most common vocabulary. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3478 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2,231
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2,231 distinct verses.
- 34 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 34 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #16
- by frequency
- Top 25 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 16 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2,231 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2,231 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1,317 verses · 59%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 533 verses · 24%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 381 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Israel 2,121×, All israel 113×, Over israel 63×
- American Standard Version†: Israel 2,017×, All israel 107×, Over israel 62×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Israel 1,723×, Israelites 104×, One of israel 26×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Israel 2,399×, The 17×, Against israel 13×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3478 across 2,505† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 73 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3478 across 2,505† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 130 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3478 across 1,998† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 46 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 507 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3478 across 2,455† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
7 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 7 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
ישראל I , and deriv., v. sub i. שׂרה.
ישראל II
- 1. n.pr.m. second name of Jacob Gn 32:29 + 28 times Gn (JE), Ex 32:13 (JE), Ho 12:13; Ju 18:29; Ex 6:14; Nu 1:20; 26:5 (all P), 2 K 17:34 1 Ch 1:34 + 8 times Chr, ψ 105:23; בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Ru 4:11; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (lit.) Gn 42:5 + 3 times E, 2 times P + Ex 1:7 (P; transition to wider use), 1 K 18:31 1 Ch 2:1 +; = 12 tribes Ex 28:9 + 7 times P; אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיִשׂ׳ †1 K 18:36; 1 Ch 29:18; 2 Ch 30:6. e.g. Genesis 32:29
- 2. n.pr.gent. (usually m. Ju 11:17 f. but f. 1 S 17:21; 2 S 24:9 [not ‖ 1 Ch 21:5], cf. Drad loc. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 57 f.): name of Hebrew nation; usually der. from 1, but יִשׂ׳ more common in early usage than בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ (v. בֵּן p. 120b): e.g. Judges 11:17
- a. (1) undivided kingdom; יִשׂ׳ Gn 47:27 (J), 49:7 (poem in J) + 108 times JE, Dt 1:1; 18:6; 33:10 (poem) + 76 times D, Gn 34:7 Ex 12:15 + 42 times P; Ju 5:2, 7(×2) + 104 times Ju, often 1 and 2 S, 1 K 1–12; כָּל־יִשׂ׳ of whole people 2 S 8:15 +, of whole army 11:1 +, opp. Judah 2:9 + (so also later). (2) יִשׂ׳ = N. tribes, disting. from Judah, even before disruption, 2 S 2:9, cf. v 10 3:10; 4:1; 5:5; 12:7; 20:1 1 K 1:35; 4:20; 5:5 +; so at disruption 12:16(×3), 18, 19; then usually of N. kingdom, till its fall, v 28; 24:7, 10 + very often K, Am 1:1; 2:6; 3:14 +, Ho 1:5; 4:15(×2); 5:3(×2), 5 +, Mi 1:13, etc. (3) יִשׂ׳ of S. kingdom, Judah, rarely bef. fall of Samaria Is 1:3; 8:18 Mi 1:14, 15, so בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ 1 K 12:17; after fall of Sam., יִשׂ׳ (less often בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳) occurs of entire people, in reference to past or future 2 K 21:8; 23:22; Is 17:9 ψ 103:7; Je 2:3; 50:17, 19 +; יִשׂ׳ also = Judah Je 2:14, 31; 4:1 +, Ez 13:2, 4, 16; 14:1, 7, 9 +, Is 40:27; 41:8; 42:24 +, Ezr 2:59 = Ne 7:61, Ezr 2:70; 3:11 +, Ne 10:34; 10:3 +, ψ 14:7(×2) = 53:7(×2), 147:2; 149:2 +, etc. (4) usage in Chr: יִשׂ׳ of whole people 1 Ch 2:7 + 110 times, of N. kingdom 2 Ch 11:1 + 16 times, of Judah 12:6; 19:8 + 9 times (5) יִשׂ׳ personif. as עֶבֶד י׳, Is 44:1, 21; 49:3 e.g. Genesis 47:27
- b. בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳, (1) of undiv. people Ex 1:12 (J), 3:9 (E) + 72 times JE, Dt 3:18; 10:6 + 25 times D, Gn 32:33 + 327 times P; Ju 1:1 + 60 times Ju; seld. 1 and 2 Sm, 1 K 1–12; in 13–2 K 25 pass. in ref. to older hist. (rarely otherwise). (2) seldom of N. kingdom Am 2:11 + 9 times Am Ho, 2 Ch 13:12 + 7 times Chr. (3) of Judah (late) Ez 2:3; Ne 1:6(×2) Ezr 3:1; Jo 4:16 +, 2 Ch 31:5. e.g. Exodus 1:12
- c. בֵּית יִשׂ׳ Ex 16:31; 40:38 + 142 times (v. בַּיִת 5 d (δ); 81 times Ez, where = Judah; v. especially 37:16); שְׁנֵי בָֽתֵּי יִשׂ׳ Is 8:14. e.g. Exodus 16:31
- d. other phrases, v. sub אִישׁ, אֶרֶץ, בַּת, בְּתוּלָה, גְּבוּל, הַר, כִּסֵּא, מֶלֶךְ, נטה) מַטֶּה), יעד) עֵדָה), עַם, שֵׁבֶט; also (in epith. of י׳) sub אָבִיר, אוֹר, אֱלֹהִים, I. גָּאַל, מֶלֶךְ, מִקְוֶה (I. קוה), i. צוּר (V. צור), קָדוֹשׁ, I. רָעָה 1 d (3).
- e. יִשׂ׳ =the laity, opp. priests, etc. (late): Ezr 10:25; Ne 11:3; 1 Ch 9:2 כָּל־יִשׂ׳ Ezr 2:70; 10:5; הָעָם יִשׂ׳ 9:1; בְּנֵי יִשׂ׳ Ne 10:40, cf. שְׁאָר יִשׂ׳ 11:20. e.g. Ezra 10:25
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.pr., and deriv., v. sub i. שׂרה.
II. n.pr.m. et gent. Israel (E†l persisteth, persevereth (or juss. Let E†l persist) [usually contendeth (NesEg 60 ff.) or Let E†l contend (GrayProp. N. 218), but v. DrHastDict. Bib. Jacob 530]; on vocalization v. LagBN 131 f. Kit 1 Ch 4:16 (Hpt); MI5, + 5 times ישראל; in Egyptian Y-si-r-ʾl SteindorffZAW xvi (1896), 331, cf. BreastedBib. World ix (1897), 62 ff. PatonSyriac and Pal. 134; Assyrian Sir-ʾ-lai (= יִשְׂרְאֵלִי) SchrKG 356 ff., 364; COT Gn 36:31, 1 K 16:29.—On a poss. relation of יִשׂ׳ to n.pr. שָׂרַי, שָׂרָה v. RSK 257, 2nd ed. 34;—cf. שְׂרָיָה(וּ));—Ισραηλ:
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שרה (sârâh) (H8280) — to contend.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יִשְׂרָאֵל
- Israel.
- 1. I. (Jacob), the patriarch. Gen. R. s. 68 י׳ סבא the patriarch I. the patriarch I. (not the people); a. fr.
- 2. I., the people. Ber. 6ᵃ; a. fr.—שונאי י׳ the enemies of Israel, often euphem. for Israel. Ib. 32ᵃ נתמוטטו … של ש׳ י׳ the feet of Israel would totter (in judgment); a. fr.—V. כְּנֶסֶת.
- 3. י׳ (= בן י׳) an Israelite, a) one not belonging to the priestly or levitic tribe; b) a Jew, opp. נכרי, גוי. Gitt. V, 8. Tosef. Kidd. V, 3; a. fr.—Tosef. Ab. Zar. III, 5, sq. Ab. Zar. II, 6; a. fr.—בַּת י׳ an Israelitish woman. Tosef. l. c. 1; 3; a. fr.—Pl. יִשְׂרְאֵלוֹת (opp. to כַּהֲנוֹת, לְוִיּוֹת). Tosef. Snh. IV, 2.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 83 distinct written forms H3478 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Amos 1:1 | 477 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | Amos 4:12 | 371 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | Amos 3:1 | 355 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Amos 2:11 | 351 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 5:1 | 212 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל | Noun, Proper | Amos 3:12 | 155 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל | Noun, Proper | Daniel 1:3 | 89 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל | Noun, Proper | Amos 1:1 | 50 |
| בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 25:10 | 34 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 8:6 | 31 |
| בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 17:4 | 30 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ | Noun, Proper | Amos 9:14 | 29 |
| בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 22:21 | 27 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 21:8 | 26 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | Exodus 12:35 | 22 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 34:8 | 13 |
| יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 8:11 | 12 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 14:4 | 12 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 5:1 | 12 |
| וְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Hosea 5:3 | 11 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 33:28 | 11 |
| לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 21:3 | 11 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֘ל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 31:7 | 9 |
| לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 33:10 | 9 |
| מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 17:12 | 9 |
| בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 34:10 | 8 |
| לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 4:3 | 8 |
| לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | Genesis 46:2 | 8 |
| יִ֭שְׂרָאֵל | Noun, Proper | Psalms 50:7 | 7 |
| מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 4:21 | 6 |
| בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 39:11 | 5 |
| וְ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 1:34 | 5 |
| יִ֝שְׂרָאֵ֗ל | Noun, Proper | Psalms 81:8 | 5 |
| לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Ezra 8:29 | 5 |
| מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Exodus 12:15 | 5 |
| מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Deuteronomy 19:13 | 5 |
| וּ/לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Exodus 18:1 | 4 |
| וְ/יִ֨שְׂרָאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Amos 7:11 | 3 |
| וְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 18:36 | 3 |
| וְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | Hosea 5:5 | 3 |
| יִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | Psalms 14:7 | 3 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵל֩ | Noun, Proper | 1 Samuel 4:1 | 3 |
| בְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 20:5 | 2 |
| בְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Kings 19:18 | 2 |
| בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 34:21 | 2 |
| בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ | Noun, Proper | Ezekiel 14:7 | 2 |
| וְ/יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 29:18 | 2 |
| וּ/בְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 44:23 | 2 |
| יִשְׂרָאֵ֞ל | Noun, Proper | Daniel 9:7 | 2 |
| לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל | Noun, Proper | Joshua 11:23 | 2 |
| לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל | Noun, Proper | Psalms 81:4 | 2 |
| לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | Psalms 73:1 | 2 |
| מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵ֗ל | Noun, Proper | 2 Chronicles 25:6 | 2 |
| מִ/יִּשְׂרָאֵל֙ | Noun, Proper | Hosea 8:6 | 2 |
| ב/ישראל | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 10:9 | 1 |
| בְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 10:1 | 1 |
| בְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל | Noun, Proper | Genesis 34:7 | 1 |
| בְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל | Noun, Proper | Judges 20:21 | 1 |
| בְ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל | Noun, Proper | Psalms 78:21 | 1 |
| בְּ/יִשְׂרָ֫אֵ֥ל | Noun, Proper | Psalms 78:5 | 1 |
The 60 most common forms are shown; 23 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3478, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
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- שריה Sᵉrâyâh H8304 Seraiah
- Ισραηλ Israḗl G2474 Israel
- ישראל Yisrâʼêl H3479 Israel
- ישראלי Yisrᵉʼêlîy H3481 Israelite
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Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Israel). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
The name conferred on Jacob after the great prayer-struggle at Peniel (Gen. 32:28), because "as a prince he had power with God and prevailed." (See JACOB.) This is the common name given to Jacob's descendants. The whole people of the twelve tribes are called "Israelites," the "children of Israel" (Josh. 3:17; 7:25; Judg. 8:27; Jer. 3:21), and the "house of Israel" (Ex. 16:31; 40:38).
This name Israel is sometimes used emphatically for the true Israel (Ps. 73:1: Isa. 45:17; 49:3; John 1:47; Rom. 9:6; 11:26).
After the death of Saul the ten tribes arrogated to themselves this name, as if they were the whole nation (2 Sam. 2:9, 10, 17, 28; 3:10, 17; 19:40-43), and the kings of the ten tribes were called "kings of Israel," while the kings of the two tribes were called "kings of Judah."
After the Exile the name Israel was assumed as designating the entire nation.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(the prince that prevails with God).
+ The name given, (Genesis 32:28) to Jacob after his wrestling with the angel, (Hosea 12:4) at Peniel. Gesenius interprets Israel "soldier of God." + It became the national name of the twelve tribes collectively. They are so called in (Exodus 3:16) and afterward. + It is used in a narrower sense, excluding Judah, in (1 Samuel 11:8; 2 Samuel 20:1; 1 Kings 12:16) Thenceforth it was assumed and accepted as the name of the northern kingdom. + After the Babylonian captivity, the returned exiles resumed the name Israel as the designation of their nation. The name Israel is also used to denote lay-men, as distinguished from priests, Levites and other ministers. (Ezra 6:16; 9:1; 10:25; Nehemiah 11:3) etc.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
who prevails with God
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2,113 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2,231 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 32:28
- Exodus 1:1
- Leviticus 1:2
- Numbers 1:2
- Deuteronomy 1:1
- Joshua 1:2
- Judges 1:1
- Ruth 2:12
- 1 Samuel 1:17
- 2 Samuel 1:3
- 1 Kings 1:3
- 2 Kings 1:1
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.