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Nehemiah 9:1

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Masoretic Text 1524

H3117 day וביום

H6242 Now in the twenty עשׂרים

H702 and fourth וארבעה

H2320 month לחדשׁ

H2088 of this הזה

H622 were assembled נאספו

H1121 the children בני

H3478 of Israel ישׂראל

H6685 with fasting בצום

H8242 and with sackclothes ובשׂקים

H127 and earth ואדמה

H5921 upon עליהם׃

King James Bible (Oxford 1769)

Now

the

H6242 twenty

and

H702 fourth

H3117 day

H2088 this

H2320 month

the

H1121 children

H3478 Israel

were

H622 assembled

with

H6685 fasting

and

with

H8242 sackclothes

and

H127 earth

H5921 upon

them

Hebrew-English Dictionary

Strongs: H3478

Hebrew: יִשְׂרָאֵל

Transliteration: Yisrâʼêl

Pronunciation: yis-raw-ale'

Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine

Bible Usage: Israel.

Definition:

he will rule as God; {Jisrael} a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity

Israel = "God prevails"

1. the second name for Jacob given to him by God after his wrestling with the angel at Peniel

2. the name of the descendants and the nation of the descendants of Jacob

a. the name of the nation until the death of Solomon and the split

b. the name used and given to the northern kingdom consisting of the 10 tribes under Jeroboam; the southern kingdom was known as Judah

c. the name of the nation after the return from exile

The Brown-Driver-Briggs
Hebrew-English Lexicon (BDB) 1906