Genesis 32:28
Then he said, “Your name will be no longer Jacob, but Israel, for you have struggled with God and with mortals and have won.”
Open English Bible (US)
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In Context
27So he said to him, “What is your name?” He answered, “Jacob.”
Cross References
Genesis 17:5Neither will your name any longer be Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
Genesis 25:31But Jacob said, “Sell me first of all your right as the eldest.”
Genesis 31:24But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night, and said to him, “Take care that you do not speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
Genesis 32:24Jacob was left alone, and someone wrestled with him until daybreak.
Genesis 33:20and he erected there an altar and called it El, God of Israel.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 32:25-32
Jacob Wrestles with an Angel. ( b. c. 1739.) 24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. 25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. 26 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 27 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob. 28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no… Read the whole commentary →