יִשְׂרָאֵל
Israel
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Page 12 of 12 — showing verses 2,201–2,231 of 2,231 distinct verses where H3478 appears, across 34 books. 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.
Amos 26 verses
- Amos 9:7 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper n Proper Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?" says Yahweh. "Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
- Amos 9:9 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper "For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
- Amos 9:14 יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ n Proper I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel, And they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, And eat the fruit of them.
Obadiah 1 verse
Micah 12 verses
- Micah 1:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper "All this is for the disobedience of Jacob, And for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the disobedience of Jacob? Isn't it Samaria? And what are the high places of Judah? Aren't they Jerusalem?
- Micah 1:13 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Harness the chariot to the swift steed, inhabitant of Lachish. She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; For the transgressions of Israel were found in you.
- Micah 1:14 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Therefore you will give a parting gift to Moresheth-gath. The houses of Achzib will be a deceitful thing to the kings of Israel.
- Micah 1:15 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper I will yet bring to you, inhabitant of Mareshah, He who is the glory of Israel will come to Adullam.
- Micah 2:12 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, As a flock in the midst of their pasture; They will swarm with people.
- Micah 3:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper I said, "Please listen, you heads of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel: Isn't it for you to know justice?
- Micah 3:8 וּ/לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל conj + prep + n Proper But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Yahweh, And of judgment, and of might, To declare to Jacob his disobedience, And to Israel his sin.
- Micah 3:9 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, And rulers of the house of Israel, Who abhor justice, And pervert all equity.
- Micah 5:1 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Now you shall gather yourself in troops, Daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us; They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
- Micah 5:2 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל prep + n Proper But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Being small among the clans of Judah, Out of you one will come forth to me that is to be ruler in Israel; Whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.
- Micah 5:3 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Therefore he will abandon them until the time that she who is in labor gives birth. Then the rest of his brothers will return to the children of Israel.
- Micah 6:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Hear, you mountains, Yahweh's controversy, And you enduring foundations of the earth; For Yahweh has a controversy with his people, And he will contend with Israel.
Nahum 1 verse
Zephaniah 4 verses
- Zephaniah 2:9 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper Therefore as I live, says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, surely Moab will be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, a possession of nettles, and salt pits, and a perpetual desolation. The remnant of my people will plunder them, and the survivors of my nation will inherit them.
- Zephaniah 3:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל n Proper The remnant of Israel will not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth, for they will feed and lie down, and no one will make them afraid."
- Zephaniah 3:14 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
- Zephaniah 3:15 יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל n Proper Yahweh has taken away your judgments. He has thrown out your enemy. The King of Israel, Yahweh, is in the midst of you. You will not be afraid of evil any more.
Zechariah 5 verses
- Zechariah 1:19 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper I asked the angel who talked with me, "What are these?" He answered me, "These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem."
- Zechariah 8:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper It shall come to pass that, as you were a curse among the nations, house of Judah and house of Israel, so will I save you, and you shall be a blessing. Don't be afraid. Let your hands be strong."
- Zechariah 9:1 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper An oracle. The word of Yahweh is against the land of Hadrach, And will rest upon Damascus; For the eye of man And of all the tribes of Israel is toward Yahweh;
- Zechariah 11:14 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.
- Zechariah 12:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper An oracle. The word of Yahweh concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:
Malachi 5 verses
- Malachi 1:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper An oracle: the word of Yahweh to Israel by Malachi.
- Malachi 1:5 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Your eyes will see, and you will say, "Yahweh is great--even beyond the border of Israel!"
- Malachi 2:11 בְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל prep + n Proper Judah has dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah has profaned the holiness of Yahweh which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
- Malachi 2:16 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!' says Yahweh of Hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.
- Malachi 4:4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper "Remember the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded to him in Horeb for all Israel, even statutes and ordinances.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“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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Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- 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
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
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.
