And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
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Gill's Exposition
When Leah saw that she had left bearing,.... For a little while, for she afterwards bore again, and observing also what her sister had done:
she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife: in…
- Jacob’s Family and Wealth 6. דן dān, Dan, “judge, lord.” 8. נפתלי naptālı̂y, Naphtali, “wrestling.” 11. גד gād, Gad, “overcoming, victory.” בגד bāgād, “in victory or” =גד בא bā' gād, “victory…
Adam Clarke
She called his name Naphtali - נפתלי naphtali, my wrestling, according to the common mode of interpretation; but it is more likely that the root פתל pathal signifies to twist or entwine. Hence Mr.…
We have here the bad consequences of that strange marriage which Jacob made with the two sisters. Here is,
I. An unhappy disagreement between him and Rachel (Gen 30:1, Gen 30:2), occasioned, not so…
Cambridge Bible
mighty wrestlings Heb. wrestlings of God. The "wrestlings of God" may mean either "mighty wrestlings," "of God" being added as an intensive or superlative (cf. Gen 23:6, "a mighty prince"); or…
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