Genesis 30:8
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.”
שֵׁם
Name, character, reputation. Shem. Not just a label but the full character of a person. The name of the LORD is a strong tower. Run to it.
גַּם
also
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גַּם
properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
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פָּתַל
I have wrestled
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פָּתַל
to twine, i.e. (literally) to struggle or (figuratively) be (morally) tortuous
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נַפְתָּלִי
Naphtali
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נַפְתָּלִי
Naphtali, a son of Jacob, with the tribe descended from him, and its territory
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נַפְתּוּל
wrestlings of
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נַפְתּוּל
properly, wrestled; but used (in the plural) transitively, a struggle
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יָכֹל
I have prevailed
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יָכֹל
to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
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רָחֵל
Rachel
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רָחֵל
Rachel, a wife of Jacob
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