Israel. This name was more honourable, and that by which his posterity were afterwards known; being called Israelites, and not Jacobites. God ratifies the title, chap. xxxv. 10. It means a prince of God, (St. Jerome, q. Heb.; Calmet) or one standing upright, and contending victoriously with God, rectus Dei, yisrael. (Haydock) --- Many have expounded it, a man seeing God; aiss-rae-al. (Philo, &c.)
Verse Genesis 32:28. _THY NAME SHALL BE CALLED NO MORE JACOB, BUT ISRAEL_] ושראל _Yisrael_, from שר _sar_, a prince, or שרה _sarah_, he ruled as a prince, and אל _el_, God; or rather from איש _ish_,...
- Jacob Wrestles in Prayer 3. מחנים _machănāyı̂m_, Machanaim, “two camps.” 22. יבק _yaboq_, Jabboq; related: בקק _bāqaq_ “gush or gurgle out” or אבק _'ābaq_ in niphal, “wrestle.” Now Wady Zurka....
CHAPTER 32 JACOB'S FEAR OF ESAU AND PRAYER AT PENIEL _ 1. The vision at Mahanaim (Genesis 32:1)_ 2. The message to Esau (Genesis 32:3) 3. Esau's coming and Jacob's fear (Genesis 32:6) 4. Jacob's p...
THE WRESTLING OF JACOB. The narrative, for which Hosea 12:3 should be compared. is distributed between J and E by recent critics. Gunkel attributes Genesis 32:23_ a_, Genesis 32:25_ a_,...
THY NAME SHALL BE CALLED NO MORE JACOB, BUT ISRAEL. Israel means. "prince with God," one who prevails with God, who has prevailed in the struggle of prayer and obtained the blessing he sought. The cha...
Jacob's Wrestling with the Angel This passage forms the climax of Jacob's history. It records the occasion on which his name is changed to Israel, and describes his personal meeting with the Divine B...
_Israel_ That is, _He who striveth with God_, or, _God striveth_. The name is clearly a title of victory, from a root meaning "to persevere." (_a_) The meaning seems here to be applied to Jacob as "th...
FOR AS A PRINCE, &C.— Our translation renders these words of the Angel to Jacob, as if Jacob had prevailed over men as well as over him; whereas he had been so far from prevailing over the only two en...
2. _Jacob's Reconciliation with Esau: The Biblical Account_ (Genesis 32:1 to Genesis 33:17) 1 And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. 2 And Jacob said when he saw them, This is God's...
_AND JACOB WAS LEFT ALONE; AND THERE WRESTLED A MAN WITH HIM UNTIL THE BREAKING OF THE DAY._ There wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day - an unknown person appeared suddenly to oppos...
32:28 Israel; (d-13) Wrestler, or prince of God. wrestled (e-17) Some, 'acted as a prince.'...
THE APPROACH OF ESAU. JACOB WRESTLES WITH THE ANGEL 1. The angels of God] God had given Jacob, by an angelic vision, a pledge of His watchful love, when he left his home (Genesis 28:12). Now that he...
ISRAEL] 'Perseverer with God.' 'As the name was to the Hebrews the symbol or expression of the nature, the change of name is significant of the moral change in the patriarch himself; he is no longer J...
GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 32 JACOB PREPARES TO MEET ESAU V1 Jacob continued his journey. God’s *angels met him V2 and Jacob saw them. He said, ‘This is God’s army!’ So he c...
‘Jacob’ may mean ‘one who cheats’. (See Genesis 25:26 and the comment.) ‘Israel’ probably means ‘God struggles’ or ‘he struggles with God’. God said to Jacob, ‘You shall be called Israel.’ But after...
THE TÔLDÔTH ISAAC (Genesis 25:19 to Genesis 35:29). THE BIRTH OF ISAAC’S SONS. Abraham begat Isaac — The _Tôldôth_ in its original form gave probably a complete genealogy of Isaac, tracing up his des...
ISRAEL. — That is, _a prince of God,_ or, _one powerful with God._ (See Note on Genesis 17:15.) Esau had given a bad meaning to the name of Jacob, nor had it been undeserved. But a change has now come...
_[Genesis 32:29]_ וַ יֹּ֗אמֶר לֹ֤א יַעֲקֹב֙ יֵאָמֵ֥ר...
JACOB AT PENIEL Genesis 32:1 "Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up." James 4:10 JACOB had a double reason for wishing to leave Padan-aram. He believed in the promise...
JACOB WRESTLES AND PREVAILS Genesis 32:13 There is a fulsomeness in Jacob's address to Esau, which sounds inconsistent with the noblest manhood and the firmest faith. Why should he speak of “my lord”...
This is unquestionably one of the great Chapter s of the Bible, and it is significant how constant and powerful is its appeal to all who live on the principle of faith. It gives the account of the thi...
WRESTLING WITH GOD As Jacob continued his journey toward home, angels met him. He called the name of that place Mahanaim, or "two camps" because there were two armies encamped there, the angels and h...
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou (k) power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. (k) God gave Jacob both power to overcome, and also the...
No more Jacob, which signifies a supplanter; but Israel, which means a Prince. And do not all the spiritual seed of Jacob change their name when their nature is renewed? Isaiah 62:4; Revelation 3:12....
Having already shown the position of Isaac, I resume briefly with the remark that he stands before us clearly as the representative of the Son, and this too as dead, risen, and in heaven. All will und...
_A NEW NAME_ ‘No more Jacob, but Israel.’ Genesis 32:28 I. THE VERY TWOFOLD NAME OF JACOB AND OF ISRAEL is but the symbol of the blending of contradictions in Jacob’s character. The life of Jacob c...
28._Thy name shall be called no more Jacob_. Jacob, as we have seen, received his name from his mother’s womb, because he had seized the heel of his brother’s foot, and had attempted to hold him back....
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 29 THROUGH 35. I have no doubt that in the two wives, as I have said, we have the Gentiles and Israel: Rachel first loved on the earth, but not possessed; but...
AND HE SAID, THY NAME SHALL BE CALLED NO MORE JACOB, BUT ISRAEL,.... That is, not Jacob only, but Israel also, as Ben Melech interprets it, or the one as well as the other; or the one rather and more...
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. Ver. 28. _No more Jacob, but Israel._] That is, not only, o...
_What is thy name? And he said, Jacob_ That is, a _supplanter_, as the word signifies. _He said_, Thy name _shall be called no more Jacob_ Or, as the words should rather be rendered, _shall not only b...
1 Iacobs vision at Mahanaim. 3 His message to Esau. 6 He is afraid of Esaus comming. 9 He prayeth for deliuerance. 13 Hee sendeth a present to Esau. 24 He wrestleth with an Angel at Peniel, where...
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. From the position of a mere Jacob, holder of the heel, in wh...
The Struggle at Peniel...
FIFTH SECTION _Jacob’s return. His fear of Esau. His night wrestlings with God. Peniel. The name Israel. Meeting and reconciliation with Esau._ GENESIS 32:3 TO GENESIS 33:16 3And Jacob sent messenge...
RETURNING TO FACE ESAU As Jacob continues his journey we are told that the angels of God met him (v.1). It was not God Himself as yet who met him, but the angels were no doubt intended as an encourage...
24-32 A great while before day, Jacob being alone, more fully spread his fears before God in prayer. While thus employed, One in the likeness of a man wrestled with him. When the spirit helpeth our i...
NO MORE JACOB, not _Jacob_ only. See the like manner of expression 1 Samuel 8:7 Jeremiah 23:7 1 Thessalonians 7:16 1 C
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him." Still God's grace follows him, notwithstanding all. "Nothing changeth God's affection." Whom He loves, and as He loves, He loves to the end....
Genesis 32:28 said H559 (H8799) name H8034 called H559 (H8735) Jacob H3290 Israel H3478 struggled H8280 ...
‘And he said, “What is your name?” And he said, “Jacob.” And he said, “Your name will no more be called Jacob, but Israel (isra-el), for you have striven (from the verb sarah) with God and with men an...
SHALL BE NO MORE CALLED JACOB Both names are applied to the nation descended from Jacob. When used characteristically "Jacob" is the name for the natural posterity of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; "Isra...
Genesis 32:7 , GENESIS 32:11; GENESIS 32:24; GENESIS 32:28 From this description of a day and a night in the life of Jacob we learn three t
Genesis 32 I. God selects men for His work on earth, not because of their personal agreeableness, but because of their adaptation to the work they have to perform. II. There is something affecting in...
We shall read three short portions of Scripture, all illustrative of the great truth that God has sometimes given grace to his people to overcome himself, the Almighty has condescended to be vanquishe...
Genesis 32:1. _And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him._ What an encouragement the visit of these angels must have been to Jacob after the strife which he had had with Laban! But, de...
Genesis 32:1. _And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him._ When he left the promised land, he had a vision of angels, ascending and descending upon the ladder, as if to bid him farewel...
Genesis 32:1. _And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim._ Jacob was about to enter...
Jacob had just come out of a great trouble. God's gracious interposition had delivered him out of the hand of the angry Laban, Laban the churl, who cared for Jacob only for what he could get out of hi...
CONTENTS: Jacob becomes Israel. Preparation for meeting Esau. Wrestling against the angel. CHARACTERS: Jacob, Esau, angel. CONCLUSION: Either we lean on God or on our own plans. The arrangements of...
Genesis 32:2. _Mahanaim,_ two camps or hosts, or the camp of God; a city in Gilead, mentioned in Joshua 13:26; Joshua 21:38; denoting that the angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear hi...
_And He said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed_ JACOB THE PRINCE Some surprise may be felt at first at th...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 32:28 YOUR NAME SHALL NO LONGER BE CALLED JACOB, BUT ISRAEL. “Israel” probably means “he strives with God.” It could also mean “God strives” (see esv footnote). Jacob’s new nam...
GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 32:22 This passage records a nighttime encounter between God and Jacob. Jacob is transformed by this extraordinary meeting, and his name is changed from “Jacob” to “Israel.”...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 32:24. Wrestled.] The Heb. word only occurs in this place. It seems to be derived from a word signifying “dust,” and the allusion is probably to the dust excited by the combat...
EXPOSITION GENESIS 32:24 AND JACOB WAS LEFT ALONE (probably on the north bank of the Jabbok; but _vide_ on Genesis 32:23); AND THERE WRESTLED—thus assaulting in his strong point one who had been a wr...
Shall we turn in our Bibles to Genesis chapter thirty-two? Now in the thirty-first chapter we had the parting of Laban, Jacob's uncle as he kisses his grandchildren goodbye, as he sets up the stone an...
Thy name. Genesis 17:5 Genesis 17:15 Genesis 33:20 Genesis 35:10 Numb