Word

Ἰσραήλ

Israḗl · G2474 · Greek · 68 occurrences

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Person

Israelfirst named in Genesis 25:261,006 verses

Meanings

Israel

The patriarch Jacob

Examples
Romans 9:6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
Israel

The nation of Israel

Examples
Matthew 2:6 ‘AND YOU, BETHLEHEM, LAND OF JUDAH, ARE BY NO MEANS LEAST AMONG THE LEADERS OF JUDAH; FOR FROM YOU WILL COME FORTH A RULER WHO WILL SHEPHERD MY PEOPLE ISRAEL.’”
Matthew 2:20 “Get up, take the Child and His mother, and go to the land of Israel; for those who sought the Child’s life are dead.”
Matthew 2:21 So Joseph got up, took the Child and His mother, and came into the land of Israel.
Israel

A figurative reference to Christians as the true Israel

Examples
Romans 9:6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
Galatians 6:16 And all who will follow this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God.

How it’s used In 8 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

θεόςGod 1

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 2 groups

λαόςpeople 3
παῖςservant, child 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

γινώσκωto know 1
ἐπιζητέωto seek, to desire 1
σώζωto save, to deliver 1
φθάνωto come upon, to reach, to attain 1

What is done to itIt is the object

3 occurrences in 3 groups

λυτρόωto set free 1
ἀντιλαμβάνομαιto help 1
βλέπωto see 1

It is given or told toIndirect object

4 occurrences in 4 groups

δίδωμιto give, to grant 1
φανερόωto reveal, to make known, to appear 1
ἀποκαθίστημιto restore 1
ἄγωto bring, to lead 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 3 groups

εἰρήνηpeace 1
ἔλεοςmercy 1
οὗτοςthis 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

12 occurrences in 6 groups

ἐνin 9
πρόςto, toward, with 3
κατάaccording to, against, down 2
ὑπέρfor 2
ἐκfrom 1
ἐπίon 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

39 occurrences in 13 groups

υἱόςson 14
οἶκοςhouse, household 6
βασιλεύςking 4
λαόςpeople 3
Other words · 9 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words

יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl · H3478 · Israel: The Hebrew name of Israel, the name given to Jacob and to his descendants, behind the Greek form of the name.
יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl · H3479 · Israel: The Aramaic form of the name of Israel, the same national name represented by the Greek form.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Israel93.182a: In Romans 9:6, Paul writes, “But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel,” using this word first for the nation as a whole, all physical descendants of Jacob.
Israel93.182b: In the same verse, Romans 9:6, the same name is used a second time for the true, inner Israel—those who are genuinely God's people, not merely physical descendants.
Israel93.182c: In Galatians 6:16, Paul closes with a blessing, “And all who will follow this rule, peace and mercy be upon them, and upon the Israel of God,” applying this name figuratively to the community of faith.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ἸσραήλIsraḗl · G2474Ἰσραηλίτης Israēlítēs · G2475 · an "Israelite", i.e. descendant of Israel · 9×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Josephus, Ἰσραηλος, Ἰσραηλου), ὁ, indeclinable, (יִשְׂרָאֵל, from שָׂרָה and אֵל,…

(Josephus, Ἰσραηλος, Ἰσραηλου), ὁ, indeclinable, (יִשְׂרָאֵל, from שָׂרָה and אֵל, wrestler with God, Gen 32:28; Hos 12:4, cf. Gen 35:10), Israel, a name given to the patriarch Jacob (and borne by him in addition to his former name from Gen 32:28 on): ὁ οἶκος Ἰσραήλ, the family or descendants of Israel, the race of Israel (A. V. the house of Israel), Mt 10:6; Mt 15:24; Acts 7:42 (Ex 16:31; 1 Sam 7:2, and often); οἱ υἱοί Ἰσραήλ the (sons, i. e. the children, the) posterity of Israel, Lk 1:16; Acts 5:21; Acts 7:23, Acts 7:37; Rom 9:27; αἱ φυλαί τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, Mt 19:28; Lk 22:30; Rev 7:4. By metonymy, for the posterity of Israel i. e. the Israelites (a name of especially honor because it made reference to the promises of salvation through the Messiah, which were given to Jacob in preference to Esau, and to be fulfilled to his posterity (see Ἰουδαῖος, b.)): Mt 2:6; Mt 8:10; Mt 9:33; Lk 1:54, Lk 1:68, Lk 1:80; Acts 4:8 (R G); Eph 2:12; Rom 11:2, Rom 11:7, Rom 11:26, etc. (Ex 5:2; Ex 11:7, and often); ὁ λαός Ἰσραήλ, Acts 4:10, Acts 4:27; γῆ Ἰσραήλ i. e. Palestine ((1 Sam 13:19, etc.)), Mt 2:20f; βασιλεύς Ἰσραήλ, Mt 27:42; Jn 1:49 (50); ἡ ἐλπίς τοῦ Ἰσραήλ Acts 28:20; ὁ Ἰσραήλ τοῦ Θεοῦ (genitive of possession), i. e. Christians, Gal 6:16; ὁ Ἰσραήλ κατά σάρκα, Israelites by birth, i. e. Jews, 1 Cor 10:18; in an emphatic sense, οὐ γάρ πάντες οἱ ἐξ Ἰσραήλ κτλ., for not all those that draw their bodily descent from Israel are true Israelites, i. e. are those whom God pronounces to be Israelites and has chosen to salvation, Rom 9:6.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Persons68 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0