Strong's H3478 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisrâʼêl)

Pronunciation: yis-raw-ale'

Morphology: n-pr-m

Name Meaning: Israel = "God prevails"

Derivation: from שָׂרָה (sârâh) [H8280] and אֵל (ʼêl) [H410]; he will rule as God;

Definition: Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

KJV Renderings: Israel.

Senses

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
1. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split
2. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah
3. the name of the nation after the return from exile

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.