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Genesis 32

Gen. 32:28 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Thy name
shem (Hebrew #8034)
an appellation, as a mark or memorial of individuality; by implication honor, authority, character
KJV usage: + base, (in-)fame(-ous), named(-d), renown, report.
Pronounce: shame
Origin: a primitive word (perhaps rather from 7760 through the idea of definite and conspicuous position; compare 8064)
shall be called
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
no mores Jacob
Ya`aqob (Hebrew #3290)
heel-catcher (i.e. supplanter); Jaakob, the Israelitish patriarch
KJV usage: Jacob.
Pronounce: yah-ak-obe'
Origin: from 6117
, but κIsrael
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
: for as a prince hast thou power
sarah (Hebrew #8280)
to prevail
KJV usage: have power (as a prince).
Pronounce: saw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
witht God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
and with men
'enowsh (Hebrew #582)
properly, a mortal (and thus differing from the more dignified 120); hence, a man in general (singly or collectively)
KJV usage: another, X (blood-)thirsty, certain, chap(-man); divers, fellow, X in the flower of their age, husband, (certain, mortal) man, people, person, servant, some ( X of them), + stranger, those, + their trade. It is often unexpressed in the English versions, especially when used in apposition with another word . Compare 376.
Pronounce: en-oshe'
Origin: from 605
u, and hast prevailed
yakol (Hebrew #3201)
a primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might)
KJV usage: be able, any at all (ways), attain, can (away with, (-not)), could, endure, might, overcome, have power, prevail, still, suffer.
Pronounce: yaw-kole'
Origin: or (fuller) yakowl {yaw-kole'}
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Gen. 35:10• 10And God said to him, Thy name [is] Jacob; thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel. (Gen. 35:10)
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2 Kings 17:3‑4• 3{i}Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and Hoshea became his servant, and tendered him presents.{/i}
 4{i}But the king of Assyria found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and sent up no present to the king of Assyria as he had done from year to year. And the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.{/i} (2 Kings 17:3‑4)
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a prince of God.
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Hos. 12:3‑4• 3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God.
 4Yea; he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us; (Hos. 12:3‑4)
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Gen. 31:24• 24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. (Gen. 31:24)
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Gen. 33:4• 4And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him; and they wept. (Gen. 33:4)

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Man,
Prince; Princess

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Ministry on This Verse

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Thy name.
Gen. 17:5,15• 5Neither shall thy name anymore be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations I have made thee.
 15{i}And God said to Abraham,{/i} As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai; but Sarah shall her name be. (Gen. 17:5,15)
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Gen. 33:20• 20And he set up there an altar, and called it El-Elohe-Israel. (Gen. 33:20)
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Gen. 35:10• 10And God said to him, Thy name [is] Jacob; thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name. And he called his name Israel. (Gen. 35:10)
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Num. 13:16• 16{i}These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to search out the land. And Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun, Jehoshua.{/i} (Num. 13:16)
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2 Sam. 12:25• 25{i}And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, for Jehovah's sake.{/i} (2 Sam. 12:25)
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2 Kings 17:34• 34{i}To this day they do after their former customs: they fear not Jehovah, neither do they after their statutes or after their ordinances, nor after the law and commandment that Jehovah commanded the sons of Jacob, whom he named Israel.{/i} (2 Kings 17:34)
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Isa. 62:2‑4• 2And the nations shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory; and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of Jehovah shall name.
 3Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of Jehovah, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
 4Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken, neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah; for Jehovah delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married. (Isa. 62:2‑4)
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Isa. 65:15• 15And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; for the Lord Jehovah will slay thee, and call his servants by another name: (Isa. 65:15)
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John 1:42• 42and he led him to Jesus. Jesus looking at him said, Thou art Simon, the son of Jonah; thou shalt be called Cephas (which is interpreted Peter). (John 1:42)
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Rev. 2:17• 17He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, I will give him of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth save he that receiveth {i}it{/i}. (Rev. 2:17)
Israel.
i.e., a prince of God.
as a prince.Or, according to the LXX., Vulgate, Houbigant, Dathe, and Rosenmuller, "because thou hast power with God, thou shalt also prevail with men."
There is a beautiful antithesis between the two terms, with [Elohim,] {Elohim,} god, the Almighty, with [anashim,] {anashim,} weak, feeble men, as the word imports; seeing thou hast had power with the Almighty, surely thou shalt prevail over perishing mortals.power.
Gen. 32:24• 24And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the rising of the dawn. (Gen. 32:24)
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Hos. 12:3‑5• 3He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and by his strength he had power with God.
 4Yea; he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with us;
 5even Jehovah the God of hosts; Jehovah is his memorial. (Hos. 12:3‑5)
with men.
Gen. 25:31• 31And Jacob said, Sell today thy birthright to me? (Gen. 25:31)
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Gen. 27:33‑36• 33And Isaac trembled with a trembling exceedingly great, and said, Who then [is] he that hunted venison and brought [it] to me? And I have eaten of all before thou camest, and have blessed him: also blessed he shall be.
 34When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with a cry great and exceedingly bitter, and said to his father, Bless me, me also, my father.
 35And he said, Thy brother came with subtlety and has taken away thy blessing.
 36And he said, Is he not rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: my birthright he took away; and behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved for me a blessing? (Gen. 27:33‑36)
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Gen. 31:24,36‑55• 24And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said to him, Take care that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
 36And Jacob was kindled, and chode with Laban: and Jacob answered and said to Laban, What [is] my trespass, what my sin, that thou hast so hotly pursued after me?
 37Whereas thou hast felt all about my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? Set [it] here before my brethren and thy brethren, and let them decide between us both.
 38These twenty years I [have been] with thee: thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and rams of thy flock I have not eaten.
 39What was torn I have not brought to thee; I bore the loss of it: of my hand didst thou require it, stolen by day or stolen by night.
 40[Thus] I was; in the day drought consumed me, and frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.
 41These twenty years I [have been] in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy flock; and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
 42Had not my father's God, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, been with me, surely empty now thou hadst sent me away. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked [thee] last night.
 43And Laban answered and said to Jacob, The daughters [are] my daughters, and the sons my sons, and the flock my flock, and all that thou seest [is] mine; and what can I do this day to these my daughters or to their sons whom they have borne?
 44And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for witness between me and thee.
 45And Jacob took a stone and set it up as a pillar.
 46And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones and made a heap and ate there on the heap.
 47And Laban called it Jagar-sahadutha , and Jacob called it Galeed.
 48And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore is its name called Galeed
 49and Mizpah ; for he said, Watch, Jehovah, between me and thee, when we are hidden one from another.
 50If thou afflict my daughters, and if thou shalt take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God [is] witness between me and thee.
 51And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold the pillar which I have set up between me and thee.
 52This heap [be] witness and the pillar [be] witness, that I pass not over this heap to thee, and that thou pass not over this heap and this pillar to me for harm.
 53The God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
 54And Jacob offered a sacrifice upon the mountain, and invited his brethren to eat bread: and they ate bread and lodged upon the mountain.
 55And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place. (Gen. 31:24,36‑55)
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Gen. 33:4• 4And Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him; and they wept. (Gen. 33:4)
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1 Sam. 26:25• 25{i}And Saul said to David{/i}, Blessed be thou, my son David: thou shalt both do great things, and also shalt still prevail. {i}And David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.{/i} (1 Sam. 26:25)
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Prov. 16:7• 7When a man's ways please Jehovah,{HR}He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him. (Prov. 16:7)
• He became a mighty prince when he had been brought to know himself as a weak man. (“Genesis 32” by C.H. Mackintosh)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And he said, Thy name shall not henceforth be called Jacob, but Israeld; for thou hast wrestlede with God, and with men, and hast prevailed.

JND Translation Notes

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Wrestler, or prince of God.
e
Some, "acted as a prince."

W. Kelly Translation

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And he said, Not Jacob shall be called henceforth thy name, but Israel; for thou hast wrestled with God and with men, and hast prevailed.