יִשְׂרָאֵל
yis.ra.elIsraelHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentName of a man2,506 occurrences34 books2,231 verses
This is the name of Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes.
Definition
from H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
Traditional renderings: Israel.
Traditional renderings: Israel.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יִשְׂרָאֵל:
- ἸσραήλIsraēl“Israel”99%
Glossary entries
Usage patterns
Occurrences
2,506 total
- 2 Samuel 24:4יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ · of IsraelNevertheless, the king’s word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army departed from the presence of the king to register the troops of Israel.
- 2 Samuel 24:9יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל · In IsraelAnd Joab reported to the king the total number of the troops. In Israel there were 800,000 men of valor who drew the sword, and in Judah there were 500,000.
- 2 Samuel 24:15בְּיִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל · upon IsraelSo the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
- 2 Samuel 24:25יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ · IsraelAnd there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.
- 1 Kings 1:3יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · IsraelThen they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
- 1 Kings 1:20יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל · IsraelAnd as for you, my lord the king, the eyes of all Israel are upon you to tell them who will sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.
- 1 Kings 1:30יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ · of IsraelI will carry out this very day exactly what I swore to you by the LORD, the God of Israel: Surely your son Solomon will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne in my place.”
- 1 Kings 1:34יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · IsraelThere Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet are to anoint him king over Israel. You are to blow the ram’s horn and declare, ‘Long live King Solomon!’
- 1 Kings 1:35יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל · IsraelThen you shall go up with him, and he is to come and sit on my throne and reign in my place. For I have appointed him ruler over Israel and Judah.”
- 1 Kings 1:48יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל · of Israel…saying, ‘Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel! Today He has provided one to sit on my throne, and my eyes have seen it.’”
- 1 Kings 2:4יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ · of Israel…and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
- 1 Kings 2:5יִ֠שְׂרָאֵל · of IsraelMoreover, you know what Joab son of Zeruiah did to me—what he did to Abner son of Ner and Amasa son of Jether, the two commanders of the armies of Israel. He killed them in peacetime to avenge the blood of war. He stained with the blood of war the belt around his waist and the sandals on his feet.
- 1 Kings 2:11יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל · IsraelThe length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.
- 1 Kings 2:15יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל · Israel“You know that the kingship was mine,” he said. “All Israel expected that I should reign, but the kingship has turned to my brother, for it has come to him from the LORD.
- 1 Kings 2:32יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל · of Israel’sThe LORD will bring his bloodshed back upon his own head, for without the knowledge of my father David he struck down two men more righteous and better than he when he put to the sword Abner son of Ner, commander of Israel’s army, and Amasa son of Jether, commander of Judah’s army.
- 1 Kings 3:28יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל · IsraelWhen all Israel heard of the judgment the king had given, they stood in awe of him, for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him to administer justice.
- 1 Kings 4:1יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס · IsraelSo King Solomon ruled over Israel,
- 1 Kings 4:7יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל · IsraelSolomon had twelve governors over all Israel to provide food for the king and his household. Each one would arrange provisions for one month of the year,
- 1 Kings 4:20וְיִשְׂרָאֵל֙ · and IsraelThe people of Judah and Israel were as numerous as the sand on the seashore, and they were eating and drinking and rejoicing.
- 1 Kings 4:25וְיִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל · and IsraelThroughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
- 1 Kings 5:13יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · IsraelThen King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
- 1 Kings 6:1יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל; יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · IsraelIn the four hundred and eightieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month of Ziv, the second month, he began to build the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kings 6:13יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל; יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ס · IsraelAnd I will dwell among the Israelites and will not abandon My people Israel.”
- 1 Kings 8:1יִשְׂרָאֵ֡ל · of Israel; יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל · of the IsraelitesAt that time Solomon assembled before him in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.
- 1 Kings 8:2יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל · of IsraelAnd all the men of Israel came together to King Solomon at the feast in the seventh month, the month of Ethanim.
- 1 Kings 8:3יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · of IsraelWhen all the elders of Israel had arrived, the priests took up the ark,
- 1 Kings 8:5יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ · of IsraelThere, before the ark, King Solomon and the whole congregation of Israel who had assembled with him sacrificed so many sheep and oxen that they could not be counted or numbered.
- 1 Kings 8:9יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לThere was nothing in the ark except the two stone tablets that Moses had placed in it at Horeb, where the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites after they had come out of the land of Egypt.
- 1 Kings 8:14יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל; יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל · of IsraelAnd as the whole assembly of Israel stood there, the king turned around and blessed them all
- 1 Kings 8:15יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל · of Israel…and said: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, who has fulfilled with His own hand what He spoke with His mouth to my father David, saying,
- 1 Kings 8:16יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ · Israel; יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל · of Israel; יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ · Israel‘Since the day I brought My people Israel out of Egypt, I have not chosen a city from any tribe of Israel in which to build a house so that My Name would be there. But I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.’
- 1 Kings 8:17יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ · of IsraelNow it was in the heart of my father David to build a house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:20יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל · of Israel; יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ · of IsraelNow the LORD has fulfilled the word that He spoke. I have succeeded my father David, and I sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised. I have built the house for the Name of the LORD, the God of Israel.
- 1 Kings 8:22יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · of IsraelThen Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in front of the whole assembly of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,
- 1 Kings 8:23יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ · of Israel…and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with all their hearts.
- 1 Kings 8:25יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל · of Israel; יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · of IsraelTherefore now, O LORD, God of Israel, keep for Your servant, my father David, what You promised when You said: ‘You will never fail to have a man to sit before Me on the throne of Israel, if only your descendants guard their way to walk before Me as you have done.’
- 1 Kings 8:26יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · of IsraelAnd now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.
- 1 Kings 8:30יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל · IsraelHear the plea of Your servant and of Your people Israel when they pray toward this place. May You hear from heaven, Your dwelling place. May You hear and forgive.
- 1 Kings 8:33יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל · IsraelWhen Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple,
- 1 Kings 8:34יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · Israel…then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers.
- 1 Kings 8:36יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל · Israel…then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
- 1 Kings 8:38יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל · Israel…then may whatever prayer or petition Your people Israel make—each knowing his own afflictions and spreading out his hands toward this temple—