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Israel

A prince of God, or prevailing, or wrestling with God. This is the name which the angel gave Jacob, after having wrestled with him all night at Mahanaim, or Peniel, Genesis xxxii, 1, 2, 28, 29, 30; Israel is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “who prevails with God.” This unified study connects 9 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

View overview sources
  • Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
  • Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
  • Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
  • A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
  • concordance
  • Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping
  • STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
  • UNLEARN reviewed seed connections

Key facts

Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H3478, H3479, G2474
Hebrew
יִשְׂרָאֵל
Greek
Ἰσραήλ · Israēl
Name meaning
who prevails with God According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

H3478

יִשְׂרָאֵל

Glosses: Israel, Ēl persisteth, persevereth

Indexed occurrences: 2,231

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

H3479

יִשְׂרָאֵל

Glosses: Israel

Indexed occurrences: 7

Source: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible lexical data / BDB-Strong mapping

G2474

Ἰσραήλ · Israēl

Glosses: Israel

Ἰσραήλ (FlJ, Ἰσράηλος, -ου), ὁ indecl. (Heb. יִשְׂרָאֵל, Gen.

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)

Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Israel

who prevails with God

Source: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869) · View data sources

A Biblical and Theological Dictionary

ISRAEL

a prince of God, or prevailing, or wrestling with God. This is the name which the angel gave Jacob, after having wrestled with him all night at Mahanaim, or Peniel, Genesis xxxii, 1, 2, 28, 29, 30; Hosea xii, 4.

Source: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary · View data sources

Concordance

All Scripture references2,000 references

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Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Israel

Meaning:
who prevails with God

Indexed occurrences: 0

Source: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · View data sources

Scripture Connections

Romans 11:17

The olive-tree argument belongs to Paul's extended discussion of Israel.

Sources

Ancient Context20 items

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