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Genesis 35:10

Genesis 35:10 is verse 10 of Genesis chapter 35, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

Jacob means he grasps the heel or he deceives.

Israel means he struggles with God.

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King James Version

And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.

World English Bible

God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.

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Genesis 35:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible

8 Now Deborah, Rebekah’s nurse, died and was buried under the oak below Bethel. So Jacob named it Allon-bachuth.

9 After Jacob had returned from Paddan-aram, God appeared to him again and blessed him.

10 And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.

11 And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.

12 The land that I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you, and I will give this land to your descendants after you.”

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Hebrew words

וַיֹּֽאמֶרand he said ל֥וֹto <the> him אֱלֹהִ֖יםGod שִׁמְךָ֣name your יַעֲקֹ֑ב[is] Jacob לֹֽאnot יִקָּרֵא֩it will be called שִׁמְךָ֙name your ע֜וֹדagain יַעֲקֹ֗בJacob כִּ֤יthat אִםexcept יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel יִהְיֶ֣הit will be שְׁמֶ֔ךָname your וַיִּקְרָ֥אand he called אֶת<obj.>שְׁמ֖וֹname his יִשְׂרָאֵֽלIsrael

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Genesis 17:5
No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:15
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.

Genesis 32:27
“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.

Genesis 32:28
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”

1 Kings 18:31
And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”

2 Kings 17:34
To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.

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