Original Language Studio
Genesis 37:3
“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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
יִשְׂרָאֵלYisrâʼêl · yis-raw-ale'
H3478 · Hebrew
H3478 · Hebrew
- Definition
- Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
- Derivation
- from H8280 (שָׂרָה) and H410 (אֵל); he will rule as God;
- KJV renderings
- Israel.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל — proper noun
- Usage
- Occurs 2,507 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 32:29Genesis 32:33Genesis 33:20Genesis 34:7Genesis 35:10
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יִשְׂרָאֵל here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.