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Genesis 30:8
Genesis 30:8 is verse 8 of Genesis chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
Naphtali sounds like the Hebrew for wrestling.
King James Version
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.
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Genesis 30:6–10 · Berean Standard Bible
6 Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.
7 And Rachel’s servant Bilhah conceived again and bore Jacob a second son.
8 Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
9 When Leah saw that she had stopped having children, she gave her servant Zilpah to Jacob as a wife.
10 And Leah’s servant Zilpah bore Jacob a son.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Genesis 23:6“Listen to us, sir. You are God’s chosen one among us. Bury your dead in the finest of our tombs. None of us will withhold his tomb for burying your dead.”
Genesis 32:24So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
Exodus 9:28Pray to the LORD, for there has been enough of God’s thunder and hail. I will let you go; you do not need to stay any longer.”
1 Samuel 14:15Then terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.
Genesis 35:25The sons of Rachel’s maidservant Bilhah were Dan and Naphtali.
Genesis 46:24The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.
Genesis 49:21Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.
Deuteronomy 33:23Concerning Naphtali he said: “Naphtali is abounding with favor, full of the blessing of the LORD; he shall take possession of the sea and the south.”
Genesis 32:25When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
Matthew 4:13Leaving Nazareth, He went and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,