יִשְׂרָאֵל

yis.ra.el

Hebrew H3478 Personal name, masculine 2,506 occurrences in 2,231 verses
יִשְׂרָאֵל Israel

A man living at the time of the Patriarchs, first mentioned at Gen.25.26;

son of: Isaac (H3327) and Rebekah (H7259);

brother of: Esau (H6215); married to Rachel (H7354), Leah (H3812), Zilpah (H2153) and Bilhah (H1090A);

father of: Reuben (H7205), Simeon (H8095), Levi (H3878), Judah (H3063), Dan (H1835H), Naphtali (H5321), Gad (H1410), Asher (H0836), Issachar (H3485), Zebulun (H2074), Dinah (H1783), Joseph (H3130) and Benjamin (H1144); also called Jacob frequently

§ Israel = "God prevails"

1. the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel

2. the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob

a. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

b. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

c. the name of the nation after the return from exile

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 2,231 verses

  1. Judges 20:25 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל

    That same day the Benjamites came out against them from Gibeah and cut down another 18,000 Israelites, all of them armed with swords.

  2. Judges 20:26 יִשְׂרָאֵ֨ל

    Then the Israelites, all the people, went up to Bethel, where they sat weeping before the LORD. That day they fasted until evening and presented burnt offerings and peace offerings to the LORD.

  3. Judges 20:27 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    And the Israelites inquired of the LORD. (In those days the ark of the covenant of God was there,

  4. Judges 20:29 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    So Israel set up an ambush around Gibeah.

  5. Judges 20:30 יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל

    On the third day the Israelites went up against the Benjamites and arrayed themselves against Gibeah as they had done before.

  6. Judges 20:31 בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    The Benjamites came out against them and were drawn away from the city. They began to attack the people as before, killing about thirty men of Israel in the fields and on the roads, one of which led up to Bethel and the other to Gibeah.

  7. Judges 20:32 יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל

    “We are defeating them as before,” said the Benjamites. But the Israelites said, “Let us retreat and draw them away from the city onto the roads.”

  8. Judges 20:33 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ליִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל

    So all the men of Israel got up from their places and arrayed themselves at Baal-tamar, and the Israelites in ambush charged from their positions west of Gibeah.

  9. Judges 20:34 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    Then 10,000 select men from all Israel made a frontal assault against Gibeah, and the battle was fierce. But the Benjamites did not realize that disaster was upon them.

  10. Judges 20:35 יִשְׂרָאֵל֒יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל

    The LORD defeated Benjamin in the presence of Israel, and on that day the Israelites slaughtered 25,100 Benjamites, all armed with swords.

  11. Judges 20:36 יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל

    Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.

  12. Judges 20:38 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,

  13. Judges 20:39 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ליִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”

  14. Judges 20:41 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    Then the men of Israel turned back on them, and the men of Benjamin were terrified when they realized that disaster had come upon them.

  15. Judges 20:42 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    So they fled before the men of Israel toward the wilderness, but the battle overtook them, and the men coming out of the cities struck them down there.

  16. Judges 20:48 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל

    And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.

  17. Judges 21:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    Now the men of Israel had sworn an oath at Mizpah, saying, “Not one of us will give his daughter in marriage to a Benjamite.”

  18. Judges 21:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לבְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑למִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    “Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”

  19. Judges 21:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ליִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    The Israelites asked, “Who among all the tribes of Israel did not come to the assembly before the LORD?” For they had taken a solemn oath that anyone who failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah would surely be put to death.

  20. Judges 21:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔למִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    And the Israelites grieved for their brothers, the Benjamites, and said, “Today a tribe is cut off from Israel.

  21. Judges 21:8 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    So they asked, “Which one of the tribes of Israel failed to come up before the LORD at Mizpah?” And, in fact, no one from Jabesh-gilead had come to the camp for the assembly.

  22. Judges 21:15 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    The people grieved for Benjamin, because the LORD had made a void in the tribes of Israel.

  23. Judges 21:17 מִיִּשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    They added, “There must be heirs for the survivors of Benjamin, so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.

  24. Judges 21:18 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    But we cannot give them our daughters as wives.” For the Israelites had sworn, “Cursed is he who gives a wife to a Benjamite.”

  25. Judges 21:24 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    And at that time, each of the Israelites returned from there to his own tribe and clan, each to his own inheritance.

  26. Judges 21:25 בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

  27. Ruth 2:12 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    May the LORD repay your work, and may you receive a rich reward from the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have taken refuge.”

  28. Ruth 4:7 בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֜לבְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    Now in former times in Israel, concerning the redemption or exchange of property, to make any matter legally binding a man would remove his sandal and give it to the other party, and this was a confirmation in Israel.

  29. Ruth 4:11 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    “We are witnesses,” said the elders and all the people at the gate. “May the LORD make the woman entering your home like Rachel and Leah, who together built up the house of Israel. May you be prosperous in Ephrathah and famous in Bethlehem.

  30. Ruth 4:14 בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    Then the women said to Naomi, “Blessed be the LORD, who has not left you this day without a kinsman-redeemer. May his name become famous in Israel.

  31. 1 Samuel 1:17 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל

    “Go in peace,” Eli replied, “and may the God of Israel grant the petition you have asked of Him.”

  32. 1 Samuel 2:14 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    and plunge it into the pan or kettle or cauldron or cooking pot. And the priest would claim for himself whatever the meat fork brought up. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh.

  33. 1 Samuel 2:22 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

  34. 1 Samuel 2:28 יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ליִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    And out of all the tribes of Israel I selected your father to be My priest, to offer sacrifices on My altar, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in My presence. I also gave to the house of your father all the offerings of the Israelites made by fire.

  35. 1 Samuel 2:29 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    Why then do you kick at My sacrifice and offering that I have prescribed for My dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than Me by fattening yourselves with the best of all the offerings of My people Israel.’

  36. 1 Samuel 2:30 יִשְׂרָאֵל֒

    Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.

  37. 1 Samuel 2:32 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age.

  38. 1 Samuel 3:11 בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    Then the LORD said to Samuel, “I am about to do something in Israel at which the ears of all who hear it will tingle.

  39. 1 Samuel 3:20 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.

  40. 1 Samuel 4:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ליִשְׂרָאֵל֩

    Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.

  41. 1 Samuel 4:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ליִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    The Philistines arrayed themselves against Israel, and as the battle spread, Israel was defeated by the Philistines, who struck down about four thousand men on the battlefield.

  42. 1 Samuel 4:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    When the troops returned to the camp, the elders of Israel asked, “Why has the LORD brought defeat on us before the Philistines today? Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Shiloh, so that it may go with us to save us from the hand of our enemies.”

  43. 1 Samuel 4:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    When the ark of the covenant of the LORD entered the camp, all the Israelites raised such a great shout that it shook the ground.

  44. 1 Samuel 4:10 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    So the Philistines fought, and Israel was defeated, and each man fled to his tent. The slaughter was very great—thirty thousand foot soldiers of Israel fell.

  45. 1 Samuel 4:17 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    The messenger answered, “Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”

  46. 1 Samuel 4:18 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

  47. 1 Samuel 4:21 מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    And she named the boy Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel,” because the ark of God had been captured and her father-in-law and her husband had been killed.

  48. 1 Samuel 4:22 מִיִּשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    “The glory has departed from Israel,” she said, “for the ark of God has been captured.”

  49. 1 Samuel 5:7 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”

  50. 1 Samuel 5:8 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ליִשְׂרָאֵ֑ליִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

    So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” “It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel.

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