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Israel He will rule as God
Israel is a Hebrew name meaning he will rule as god, said yis-raw-ale'. The name given to Jacob after he wrestled until daybreak, and then to the whole nation.
Where the name comes from
יִשְׂרָאֵל Yisrâʼêl — Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity. Strong's H3478 derives it: from H8280 (שָׂרָה) and H410 (אֵל); he will rule as God.
Israel in Scripture
The name appears in 2300 verses, first at Genesis 32:28.
Genesis 32:28 · KJV
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
Genesis 32:32 · KJV
Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob’s thigh in the sinew that shrank.
Genesis 34:7 · KJV
And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.
Genesis 35:10 · KJV
And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
Genesis 35:21 · KJV
And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Edar.
Genesis 35:22 · KJV
And it came to pass, when Israel dwelt in that land, that Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine: and Israel heard it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve:
Genesis 36:31 · KJV
And these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.
Genesis 37:3 · KJV
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.
Genesis 37:13 · KJV
And Israel said unto Joseph, Do not thy brethren feed the flock in Shechem? come, and I will send thee unto them. And he said to him, Here am I.
Genesis 42:5 · KJV
And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came: for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 43:6 · KJV
And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?
Genesis 43:8 · KJV
And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me, and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and thou, and also our little ones.
and 2288 more.
Who bore the name
Read the story: Bible verses about Jacob.
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