יִשְׂרָאֵל2507 proper name, masculine and of a people Israel (El persisteth, persevereth (or jussive Let El persist) [usually contendeth (NesEg.60 ff.) or Let El contend (GrayProp. N. 218), but see DrHast. DB JACOB 530]; on vocalization see LagBN 131 f. Kit[1Chr 4:16] (Hpt); MI5, + 5 t. ישראל; in Egyptian Y-si-r-'l SteindZAW xvi (1896), 331, compare BreastedBib. World ix (1897), 62 ff. PatonSyr. and Pal. 134; Assyrian Sir-'-lai (= יִשְׂרְאֵלִי) SchrKG 356 ff., 364; COT [Gen 36:31]; [1Kgs 16:29]. — On a possibly relation of ׳יִשׂ to proper name שָׂרַי, שָׂרָה see RSK 257, 2nd ed. 34; — compare שְׂרָיָה(וּׅ; — Ισραηλ:
1. proper name, masculine second name of Jacob [Gen 32:29] + 28 t. Genesis (JE), [Exod 32:13] (JE), [Hos 12:13]; [Judg 18:29]; [Exod 6:14]; [Num 1:20]; [Num 26:5] (all P), [2Kgs 17:34]; [1Chr 1:34] + 8 t. Chronicles, [Ps 105:23] ׳בֵּית יִשׂ [Ruth 4:11] ׳בְּנֵי יִשׂ (literal) [Gen 42:5] + 3 t. E, 2 t. P + [Exod 1:7] (P; transition to wider use), [1Kgs 18:31]; [1Chr 2:1] +; = 12 tribes [Exod 28:9] + 7 t. P; ׳אֱלֹהֵי אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיִשׂ [1Kgs 18:36]; [1Chr 29:18]; [2Chr 30:6].
2. proper name, of a people (usually masculine[Judg 11:17]f. but feminine [1Sam 17:21]; [2Sam 24:9] [not || [1Chr 21:5]], compare Dron the passage AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 57 f.): name of Hebrew nation; usually derived from 1, but ׳יִשׂ more common in early usage than ׳בְּנֵי יִשׂ (see בֵּן p. 120:b):
\ \ a. (1) undivided kingdom; ׳יִשׂ [Gen 47:27] (J), [Gen 49:7] (poem in J) + 108 t. J E, [Deut 1:1]; [Deut 18:6]; [Deut 33:10] (poem) + 76 t. D, [Gen 34:7]; [Exod 12:15] + 42 t. P; [Judg 5:2]; [Judg 5:7] (twice in verse) + 104 t. Judges; often 1 and 2 Samuel; 1 Ki 1-12; ׳כָּליִֿשׂ of whole people [2Sam 8:15] +, of whole army [2Sam 11:1] +, opposed to Judah [2Sam 2:9] + (so also later). (2) ׳יִשׂ = Northern tribes, distinguished from Judah, even before disruption, [2Sam 2:9], compare v[2Sam 2:10]; [2Sam 3:10]; [2Sam 4:1]; [2Sam 5:5]; [2Sam 12:7]; [2Sam 20:1]; [1Kgs 1:35]; [1Kgs 4:20]; [1Kgs 5:5] +; so at disruption [1Kgs 12:16] (3 t. in verse); [1Kgs 12:18]; [1Kgs 12:19] then usually of Northern kingdom, till its fall, v[1Kgs 12:28]; [1Kgs 24:7]; [1Kgs 24:10] + very often Kings, [Amos 1:1]; [Amos 2:6]; [Amos 3:14] +, [Hos 1:5]; [Hos 4:15] (twice in verse); [Hos 5:3] (twice in verse); [Hos 5:5] +, [Mic 1:13], etc. (3) ׳יִשׂ of Southern kingdom, Judah, rarely before fall of Samaria [Isa 1:3]; [Isa 8:18]; [Mic 1:14]; [Mic 1:15], so ׳בְּנֵי יִשׂ [1Kgs 12:17] after fall of Samaria, ׳יִשׂ (less often ׳בְּנֵי יִשׂ) occurs of entire people, in reference to past or future [2Kgs 21:8]; [2Kgs 23:22]; [Isa 17:9]; [Ps 103:7]; [Jer 2:3]; [Jer 50:17]; [Jer 50:19] +; ׳יִשׂ also = Judah [Jer 2:14]; [Jer 2:31]; [Jer 4:1] +, [Ezek 13:2]; [Ezek 13:4]; [Ezek 13:16]; [Ezek 14:1]; [Ezek 14:7]; [Ezek 14:9] +, [Isa 40:27]; [Isa 41:8]; [Isa 42:24] +, [Ezra 2:59] = [Neh 7:61]; [Ezra 2:70]; [Ezra 3:11] +, [Neh 10:34]; [Neh 10:3] +, [Ps 14:7] (twice in verse) = [Ps 53:7] (twice in verse), [Ps 147:2]; [Ps 149:2] +, etc. (4) usage in Chronicles: ׳יִשׂ of whole people [1Chr 2:7] + 110 t., of Northern kingdom [2Chr 11:1] + 16 t., of Judah [2Chr 12:6]; [2Chr 19:8] + 9 t. (5) ׳יִשׂ personified as ׳עֶבֶד י, [Isa 44:1]; [Isa 44:21]; [Isa 49:3].
\ \ b. ׳בְּנֵי יִשׂ, (1) of undivided people [Exod 1:12] (J), [Exod 3:9] (E) + 72 t. J E, [Deut 3:18]; [Deut 10:6] + 25 t. D, [Gen 32:33] + 327 t. P; [Judg 1:1] + 60 t. Judges; seldom 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 Ki 1-12; in 1Kings 13—2Kings 25 passive in reference to older history (rarely otherwise). (2) seldom of Northern kingdom [Amos 2:11] + 9 t. Amos, Hosea; [2Chr 13:12] + 7 t. Chronicles. (3) of Judah (late) [Ezek 2:3]; [Neh 1:6] (twice in verse); [Ezra 3:1]; [Joel 4:16] +, [2Chr 31:5].
\ \ c. בֵּית ׳יִשׂ [Exod 16:31]; [Exod 40:38] + 142 t. (see בַּיִת 5 d (δ); 81 t. Ezekiel, where = Judah; see especially [Exod 37:16]); ׳שְׁנֵי בָֽתֵּי יִשׂ [Isa 8:14].
\ \ d. other phrases, see sub אִישׁ, אֶרֶץ, בַּת, בְּתוּלָה, גְּבוּל, הַר, כִּסֵּא, מֶלֶךְ, (נטה) מַטֶּה, (יעד) עֵדָה, עַם, שֵׁבֶט; also (in epithet of ׳י) below אָבִיר, אוֺר, אֱלֹחִים, I. גָּוֺאל, מֶלֶךְ, מִקְוֶה (I. קוה), I. צוּר (V. צור), קָדוֺשׁ, I. רָעָה 1 d (3).
\ \ e. ׳יִשׂ = the laity, opposed to priests, etc. (late): [Ezra 10:25]; [Neh 11:3]; [1Chr 9:2] ׳כָּליִֿשׂ [Ezra 2:70]; [Ezra 10:5] ׳הָעָם יִשׂ [Ezra 9:1] ׳בְּנֵי יִשׂ [Neh 10:40], compare ׳שְׁאָר יִשׂ [Neh 11:20].
The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon
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