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Genesis 30:8 KJV
Genesis · chapter 30 · verse 8
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.Genesis 30:8 · King James Version
Genesis 30:8 in context
6And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
7And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
8And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
9When Leah saw that she had left bearing, she took Zilpah her maid, and gave her Jacob to wife.
10And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a son.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- wrestlingsnaphtûwlproperly, wrestledH5319 →
- prevailedyâkôlto be able, literally or morallyH3201 →
- wrestledpâthalto twineH6617 →
- RachelRâchêlRachel, a wife of JacobH7354 →
- sisterʼâchôwtha sister , literally and figuratively)H269 →
- calledqârâʼto call out toH7121 →
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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 much by her own barrenness as by her sister's fruitfulness.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-13