לְ/יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל

𐤋/𐤉𐤔𐤓𐤀𐤋

leyiserael

to Israel

from שָׂרָה and אֵל; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity; Israel.

H3478

Joshua 21:43 · Word #3

Lexicon H3478

Lemmaיִשְׂרָאֵל
Lemma (Paleo)𐤉𐤔𐤓𐤀𐤋
TransliterationYisrâʼêl
Strong'sH3478
In-contextto Israel

Morphology HR/Np All morphology codes

Part of Speech N — Noun — A person, place, thing, or idea
Subtype p — Proper Name — Proper name

SIBI-P1 H3478-04

to the Prevailing-Ones

Rootשרה (ś-r-h)
Core Meaningsto strive, to prevail, to rule, to become rigid, to retain
Semantic RangeProper name of Jacob post-wrestling (Gen 32:28); his descendants as covenant nation; northern kingdom post-Solomon; ideal righteous remnant (Isa 49:3; Ps 73:1); restored community (Ezra).
Conceptual SignificanceEmbodies covenant identity from struggle with God (Gen 32:28), signifying divine election, prevailing faith, and transformation from individual (Jacob) to nation; evokes theological tension of striving with deity while upheld by Him, central to Israel's calling as 'God prevails' people amid exile and restoration.
Morphological NotesHR/Np: Hebrew proper noun (preposition לְ + lemma יִשְׂרָאֵל); no pronominal suffixes, verbal stems, or inflectional gender/number beyond inherent masculine collective sense of the nation.
Rendering RationaleThe form לְיִשְׂרָאֵל is a preposition לְ (to/for) plus the proper noun יִשְׂרָאֵל (Israel), morphologically HR/Np (Hebrew proper noun), rendered as 'to the Prevailing-Ones' to evoke the root שרה meaning 'to prevail/strive' combined with divine connotation, preserving the dative/indirect object function without altering the collective plural sense of the nation as Jacob's posterity. This maintains semantic fidelity to 'God prevails' or 'he strives with God' while using a hyphenated compound to reflect the theophoric unity. Morphology is noun phrase with no gender/number suffixes to inflect, thus neutral plural collective.

AI-generated (perplexity/sonar-pro)

Words from Root שרה (to strive, to prevail, to rule, to become rigid, to retain)

SILEX Code Transliteration SIBI-P1
H8302-01 hashireyan the twisted corslet
H8302-02 hashireyon the twisted coat-of-mail
H8302-03 kashireyan as the twisted-corslet

Word Usage (2507 occurrences of H3478)

Location Form Transliteration Meaning
Genesis 32:29 יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל yiserael Israel
Genesis 32:33 יִשְׂרָאֵ֜ל yiserael Israel
Genesis 33:20 יִשְׂרָאֵֽל yiserael Israel
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