H3478

ישראל

ישראל
yasharaahl

Proper masculine noun · From שרה (H8280) and אל (H410)

From H8280 and H410; he will rule as God; Jisraël, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity:—Israel.

Outline

  1. 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
      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

Usages (11/45)

Deuteronomy 32:8

Breakdown

inheritance land. separated the sons of Adam The three classifications of men at that time: the sons of God (known at the time as the Adamites but now as the Israelites), the sons of Men (the heathen nations) and the sons of the Wicked (the descendants of Cain know today as the Edomites).

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