Genesis 30:8
New International Version
Then Rachel said, “I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won.” So she named him Naphtali.

New Living Translation
Rachel named him Naphtali, for she said, “I have struggled hard with my sister, and I’m winning!”

English Standard Version
Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.

Berean Standard Bible
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.

King James Bible
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

New King James Version
Then Rachel said, “With great wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and indeed I have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.

New American Standard Bible
So Rachel said, “With mighty wrestling I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.

NASB 1995
So Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.

NASB 1977
So Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and I have indeed prevailed.” And she named him Naphtali.

Amplified Bible
So Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings [in prayer to God] I have struggled with my sister and have prevailed.” So she named him Naphtali (my wrestlings).

Christian Standard Bible
Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God, I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Rachel said, “In my wrestlings with God, I have wrestled with my sister and won,” and she named him Naphtali.

American Standard Version
And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Rakhyl said, “I begged of LORD JEHOVAH and I prayed with my sister and also I have found”, and she called his name Naphtali.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Rachel said, God has helped me, and I contended with my sister and prevailed; and she called his name, Nephthalim.

Contemporary English Version
Rachel said, "I've struggled hard with my sister, and I've won!" So she named the boy Naphtali.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephtali.

English Revised Version
And Rachel said, With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Rachel said, "I have had a great struggle with my sister, and I have won!" So she named him Naphtali [My Struggle].

Good News Translation
Rachel said, "I have fought a hard fight with my sister, but I have won"; so she named him Naphtali.

International Standard Version
so Rachel said, "I've been through a mighty struggle with my sister and won." She named him Naphtali.

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Rachel said: 'With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.' And she called his name Naphtali.

Literal Standard Version
and Rachel says, “With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, indeed, I have prevailed”; and she calls his name Napthali.

Majority Standard Bible
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.

New American Bible
and Rachel said, “I have wrestled strenuously with my sister, and I have prevailed.” So she named him Naphtali.

NET Bible
Then Rachel said, "I have fought a desperate struggle with my sister, but I have won." So she named him Naphtali.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed”; so she named him Naphtali.

New Heart English Bible
Rachel said, "I have wrestled mightily with my sister, and have prevailed." So she named him Naphtali.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

World English Bible
Rachel said, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed.” She named him Naphtali.

Young's Literal Translation
and Rachel saith, 'With wrestlings of God I have wrestled with my sister, yea, I have prevailed;' and she calleth his name Napthali.

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Context
Dan and Naphtali
7And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son. 8Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.

Cross References
Genesis 30:7
And Rachel's servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.

Genesis 30:9
When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.

Numbers 2:29
Next will be the tribe of Naphtali. The leader of the Naphtalites is Ahira son of Enan,


Treasury of Scripture

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

great wrestlings.

Genesis 23:6
Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

Genesis 32:24
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

Exodus 9:28
Intreat the LORD (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunderings and hail; and I will let you go, and ye shall stay no longer.

and she.

Genesis 35:25
And the sons of Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid; Dan, and Naphtali:

Genesis 46:24
And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

Genesis 49:21
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.

Naphtali.

Genesis 32:24,25
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day…

Matthew 4:13
And leaving Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capernaum, which is upon the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and Nephthalim:

Nephthalim.

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Genesis 30
1. Rachel, in grief for her barrenness, gives Bilhah her maid unto Jacob.
5. Bilhah bears Dan and Naphtali.
9. Leah gives Zilpah her maid, who bears Gad and Asher.
14. Reuben finds mandrakes,
15. with which Leah buys her husband's company of Rachel.
17. Leah bears Issachar, Zebulun, and Dinah.
22. Rachel bears Joseph.
25. Jacob desires to depart.
27. Laban detains him on a new agreement.
37. Jacob's policy, whereby he becomes rich.














(8) With great wrestlings.--Heb., wrestlings of God, but the Authorised Version undoubtedly gives the right sense. (See Note on Genesis 23:6.) By wrestling, some commentators understand prayer, but the connection of the two ideas of wrestling and prayer is taken from Genesis 32:24, where an entirely different verb is used. Rachel's was a discreditable victory, won by making use of a bad custom, and it consisted in weaning her husband still more completely from the unloved Leah. Now that Bilhah and children were added to the attractiveness of her tent, her sister, she boasts, will be thought of no more.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Then Rachel
רָחֵ֗ל (rā·ḥêl)
Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 7354: Rachel -- a wife of Jacob

said,
וַתֹּ֣אמֶר (wat·tō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“In my great struggles,
נַפְתּוּלֵ֨י (nap̄·tū·lê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 5319: Wrestled, a struggle

I have wrestled
נִפְתַּ֛לְתִּי (nip̄·tal·tî)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 6617: To twine, to struggle, be, tortuous

with
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

my sister
אֲחֹתִ֖י (’ă·ḥō·ṯî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 269: Sister -- a sister

and
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

won.”
יָכֹ֑לְתִּי (yā·ḵō·lə·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 3201: To be able, have power

So she named
וַתִּקְרָ֥א (wat·tiq·rā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7121: To call, proclaim, read

him
שְׁמ֖וֹ (šə·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8034: A name

Naphtali.
נַפְתָּלִֽי׃ (nap̄·tā·lî)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 5321: Naphtali -- a son of Jacob, also his descendants and the district settled by them


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