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).
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Joshua 139 verses
- Joshua 10:24 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper It happened, when they brought forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings. They came near, and put their feet on the necks of them.
- Joshua 10:29 יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל n Proper Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
- Joshua 10:30 יִשְׂרָאֵ֘ל n Proper and Yahweh delivered it also, and the king of it, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did to the king of it as he had done to the king of Jericho.
- Joshua 10:31 יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל n Proper Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
- Joshua 10:32 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper and Yahweh delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
- Joshua 10:34 יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל n Proper Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;
- Joshua 10:36 יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל n Proper Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it:
- Joshua 10:38 יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל n Proper Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it:
- Joshua 10:40 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper So Joshua struck all the land, the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded.
- Joshua 10:42 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper prep + n Proper All these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
- Joshua 10:43 יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל n Proper Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
- Joshua 11:5 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
- Joshua 11:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
- Joshua 11:8 יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ n Proper Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.
- Joshua 11:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
- Joshua 11:14 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper All the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.
- Joshua 11:16 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland of the same;
- Joshua 11:19 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took all in battle.
- Joshua 11:20 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper For it was of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Joshua 11:21 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities.
- Joshua 11:22 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain.
- Joshua 11:23 לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל prep + n Proper So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.
- Joshua 12:1 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:
- Joshua 12:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Moses the servant of Yahweh and the children of Israel struck them: and Moses the servant of Yahweh gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 12:7 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper n Proper These are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;
- Joshua 13:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper prep + n Proper all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot you it to Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
- Joshua 13:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper n Proper Nevertheless the children of Israel didn't drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.
- Joshua 13:14 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.
- Joshua 13:22 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל n Proper Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel kill with the sword among the rest of their slain.
- Joshua 13:33 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
- Joshua 14:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper n Proper These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,
- Joshua 14:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.
- Joshua 14:10 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
- Joshua 14:14 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day; because that he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Joshua 17:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper It happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out.
- Joshua 18:1 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there: and the land was subdued before them.
- Joshua 18:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper There remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance.
- Joshua 18:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
- Joshua 18:10 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
- Joshua 19:49 יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל n Proper So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance by the borders of it; and the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in the midst of them:
- Joshua 19:51 יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל n Proper These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land.
- Joshua 20:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
- Joshua 20:9 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל n Proper These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
- Joshua 21:1 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel;
- Joshua 21:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֧ל n Proper The children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:8 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper The children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by Moses.
- Joshua 21:41 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight cities with their suburbs.
- Joshua 21:43 לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל prep + n Proper So Yahweh gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and they possessed it, and lived therein.
- Joshua 21:45 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper There failed not anything of any good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
- Joshua 22:9 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
- Joshua 22:11 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper n Proper The children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel.
- Joshua 22:12 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper n Proper When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.
- Joshua 22:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל n Proper The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
- Joshua 22:14 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper n Proper and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
- Joshua 22:16 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?
- Joshua 22:18 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? and it will be, seeing you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
- Joshua 22:20 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man didn't perish alone in his iniquity.
- Joshua 22:21 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,
- Joshua 22:22 וְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל conj + n Proper The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day),
- Joshua 22:24 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, [and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?
- Joshua 22:30 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ n Proper When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.
- Joshua 22:31 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל n Proper Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we know that Yahweh is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh: now have you delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh.
- Joshua 22:32 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
- Joshua 22:33 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל n Proper n Proper The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.
- Joshua 23:1 לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל prep + n Proper It happened after many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old and well stricken in years;
- Joshua 23:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל n Proper that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, I am old and well stricken in years:
- Joshua 24:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל n Proper n Proper Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
- Joshua 24:2 יִשְׂרָאֵל֒ n Proper Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
- Joshua 24:9 בְּ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל prep + n Proper Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;
- Joshua 24:23 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper Now therefore put away, [said he], the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Joshua 24:31 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵֽל n Proper prep + n Proper Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.
- Joshua 24:32 יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל n Proper The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Judges 154 verses
- 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.
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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
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
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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.
