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. 1 Samuel 5:10 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    So they sent the ark of God to Ekron, but as it arrived, the Ekronites cried out, “They have brought us the ark of the God of Israel in order to kill us and our people!”

  2. 1 Samuel 5:11 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.

  3. 1 Samuel 6:3 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”

  4. 1 Samuel 6:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.

  5. 1 Samuel 7:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    And from that day a long time passed, twenty years in all, as the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim. And all the house of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD.

  6. 1 Samuel 7:3 יִשְׂרָאֵל֮

    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then rid yourselves of the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”

  7. 1 Samuel 7:4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    So the Israelites put away the Baals and Ashtoreths and served only the LORD.

  8. 1 Samuel 7:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    Then Samuel said, “Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray to the LORD on your behalf.”

  9. 1 Samuel 7:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    When they had gathered at Mizpah, they drew water and poured it out before the LORD. On that day they fasted, and there they confessed, “We have sinned against the LORD.” And Samuel judged the Israelites at Mizpah.

  10. 1 Samuel 7:7 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ליִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, their rulers marched up toward Israel. And when the Israelites learned of this, they feared the Philistines

  11. 1 Samuel 7:8 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    and said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”

  12. 1 Samuel 7:9 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD on behalf of Israel, and the LORD answered him.

  13. 1 Samuel 7:10 בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֑ליִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    As the Philistines drew near to fight against Israel, Samuel was sacrificing the burnt offering. But that day the LORD thundered loudly against the Philistines and threw them into such confusion that they fled before Israel.

  14. 1 Samuel 7:11 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    Then the men of Israel charged out of Mizpah and pursued the Philistines, striking them down all the way to an area below Beth-car.

  15. 1 Samuel 7:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

  16. 1 Samuel 7:14 יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל׀לְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ליִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    The cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.

  17. 1 Samuel 7:15 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    So Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.

  18. 1 Samuel 7:16 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    Every year he would go on a circuit from Bethel to Gilgal to Mizpah, judging Israel in all these places.

  19. 1 Samuel 7:17 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    Then he would return to Ramah because his home was there, and there he judged Israel and built an altar to the LORD.

  20. 1 Samuel 8:1 לְיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

  21. 1 Samuel 8:4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    So all the elders of Israel gathered together and came to Samuel at Ramah.

  22. 1 Samuel 8:22 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    “Listen to their voice,” the LORD said to Samuel. “Appoint a king for them.” Then Samuel told the men of Israel, “Everyone must go back to his city.”

  23. 1 Samuel 9:2 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    And he had a son named Saul, choice and handsome, without equal among the Israelites—a head taller than any of the people.

  24. 1 Samuel 9:9 בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל

    (Formerly in Israel, a man on his way to inquire of God would say, “Come, let us go to the seer.” For the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.)

  25. 1 Samuel 9:16 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    “At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”

  26. 1 Samuel 9:20 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them, for they have been found. And upon whom is all the desire of Israel, if not upon you and all your father’s house?”

  27. 1 Samuel 9:21 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    Saul replied, “Am I not a Benjamite from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of Benjamin? So why would you say such a thing to me?”

  28. 1 Samuel 10:18 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל פיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ליִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’

  29. 1 Samuel 10:20 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    Thus Samuel had all the tribes of Israel come forward, and the tribe of Benjamin was selected.

  30. 1 Samuel 11:2 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    But Nahash the Ammonite replied, “I will make a treaty with you on one condition, that I may put out everyone’s right eye and bring reproach upon all Israel.”

  31. 1 Samuel 11:3 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    “Hold off for seven days,” replied the elders of Jabesh, “and let us send messengers throughout Israel. If there is no one to save us, we will surrender to you.”

  32. 1 Samuel 11:7 יִשְׂרָאֵל֮

    He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell upon the people, and they turned out as one man.

  33. 1 Samuel 11:8 יִשְׂרָאֵל֙

    And when Saul numbered them at Bezek, there were 300,000 Israelites and 30,000 men of Judah.

  34. 1 Samuel 11:13 בְּיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס

    But Saul ordered, “No one shall be put to death this day, for today the LORD has worked salvation in Israel.”

  35. 1 Samuel 11:15 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    So all the people went to Gilgal and confirmed Saul as king in the presence of the LORD. There they sacrificed peace offerings before the LORD, and Saul and all the Israelites rejoiced greatly.

  36. 1 Samuel 12:1 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    Then Samuel said to all Israel, “I have listened to your voice in all that you have said to me, and I have set over you a king.

  37. 1 Samuel 13:1 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.

  38. 1 Samuel 13:2 מִיִּשְׂרָאֵל֒

    He chose for himself three thousand men of Israel: Two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin. And the rest of the troops he sent away, each to his own home.

  39. 1 Samuel 13:4 יִשְׂרָאֵ֞ליִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    And all Israel heard the news: “Saul has attacked an outpost of the Philistines, and now Israel has become a stench to the Philistines!” Then the people were summoned to join Saul at Gilgal.

  40. 1 Samuel 13:5 יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל

    Now the Philistines assembled to fight against Israel with three thousand chariots, six thousand horsemen, and troops as numerous as the sand on the seashore. They went up and camped at Michmash, east of Beth-aven.

  41. 1 Samuel 13:6 יִשְׂרָאֵ֤ל

    Seeing that they were in danger because their troops were hard-pressed, the men of Israel hid in caves and thickets, among the rocks, and in cellars and cisterns.

  42. 1 Samuel 13:13 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    “You have acted foolishly,” Samuel declared. “You have not kept the command that the LORD your God gave you; if you had, the LORD would have established your kingdom over Israel for all time.

  43. 1 Samuel 13:19 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”

  44. 1 Samuel 13:20 יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל

    Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

  45. 1 Samuel 14:12 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    So the men of the outpost called out to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, “Come on up, and we will teach you a lesson!” “Follow me,” Jonathan told his armor-bearer, “for the LORD has delivered them into the hand of Israel.”

  46. 1 Samuel 14:18 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

    Then Saul said to Ahijah, “Bring the ark of God.” (For at that time it was with the Israelites.)

  47. 1 Samuel 14:21 יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

    And the Hebrews who had previously gone up into the surrounding camps of the Philistines now went over to the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.

  48. 1 Samuel 14:22 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל

    When all the Israelites who had been hiding in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines were fleeing, they also joined Saul and Jonathan in the battle.

  49. 1 Samuel 14:23 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל

    So the LORD saved Israel that day, and the battle moved on beyond Beth-aven.

  50. 1 Samuel 14:24 יִשְׂרָאֵ֥ל

    Now the men of Israel were in distress that day, for Saul had placed the troops under an oath, saying, “Cursed is the man who eats any food before evening, before I have taken vengeance on my enemies.” So none of the troops tasted any food.

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