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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Genesis 30:8

Compared me, &c. As Lia treacherously got my husband, so I have craftily surmounted the difficulties of barrenness; I have struggled earnestly, and have got the victory. Patal, means to act with cunning. (Psalm xvii. 27.) (Calmet) --- Nephtali, "a crafty wrestler." (Menochius)

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See also Genesis 30:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Genesis 30:8. _SHE CALLED HIS NAME NAPHTALI_] נפתלי _naphtali, my_ _wrestling_, according to the common mode of interpretation; but it is more likely that the root פתל _pathal_ signifies to _tw...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    - Jacob’s Family and Wealth 6. דן _dān_, Dan, “judge, lord.” 8. נפתלי _naptālı̂y_, Naphtali, “wrestling.” 11. גד _gād_, Gad, “overcoming, victory.” בגד _bāgād_, “in victory or” =גד...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 30 JACOB WITH LABAN _ 1. The sons of Bilhah: Dan and Naphtali (Genesis 30:1)_ 2. The sons of Zilpah: Gad and Asher (Genesis 30:9) 3. The children of Leah: Issachar, Zebulon and Dinah (Genes...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    GENESIS 29:31 TO GENESIS 30:24. THE BIRTH OF JACOB'S CHILDREN. This section is from JE, with slight touches from P. Roughly Genesis 29:31; Gene

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GREAT WRESTLINGS HAVE. WRESTLED. Hebrew with wrestlings of _El_ (= GOD) i.e. mighty wrestlings. Figure of speech _Polyptoton,_ and _Paronomasia._ App-6. NAPHTALI. Hebrew my wrestling....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24. Birth of Jacob's Children 31 35 (J); Genesis 30:1-24 (J, E and P) In this section is narrated the account of the birth of eleven sons and one daughter. Six of the son...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _mighty wrestlings_ Heb. _wrestlings of God_. The "wrestlings of God" may mean either "mighty wrestlings," "of God" being added as an intensive or superlative (cf. Genesis 23:6, "a mighty prince"); or...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WITH GREAT WRESTLINGS— That is, according to the Hebrew, _with wrestlings of God;_ either with great and hard wrestlings or strivings, or by wrestling with God in fervent prayer; and by God's grace an...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. _Jacob's Family_ (Genesis 29:31 to Genesis 30:24). _Basic Facts:_ (1) Jacob became the father of twelve sons and one daughter. The inferior value set on a daughter is displayed in the bare announce...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND RACHEL SAID, WITH GREAT WRESTLINGS HAVE I WRESTLED WITH MY SISTER, AND I HAVE PREVAILED: AND SHE CALLED HIS NAME NAPHTALI._ Naphtali - i:e., wrestling. In bestowing this name she had a reference...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    30:8 Naphtali. (b-21) My wrestling....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    GREAT WRESTLINGS] lit. 'wrestlings of God,' an emphatic expression: cp. Luke 10:9 and Luke 13:13. NAPHTALI] 'my wrestling.' Rachel regarded this child as a victory over her more fruitful sister....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JACOB'S CHILDREN. HIS STRATAGEM TO INCREASE HIS PROPERTY 1. Rachel envied her sister] To be childless was regarded as a great reproach: cp. Luke 1:25. Fruitfulness meant an addition of strength and p...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOD’S ANCIENT PEOPLE GENESIS _ALUN OWEN_ CHAPTER 30 JACOB HAS 6 MORE SONS V1 Rachel saw that she produced no children for Jacob. And she was angry with her sister because her sister was successf...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ‘Dan’ means ‘he gave his judgement’. ‘Naphtali’ means ‘struggle’. ‘Gad’ means ‘fortunately’. ‘Asher’ means ‘happy’. V14 At the time when people harvest wheat, Reuben went out into the field. He fo...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WITH GREAT WRESTLINGS. — Heb., _wrestlings of God,_ but the Authorised Version undoubtedly gives the right sense. (See Note on Genesis 23:6.) By _wrestling,_ some commentators understand prayer, but t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַ תֹּ֣אמֶר רָחֵ֗ל נַפְתּוּלֵ֨י אֱלֹהִ֧ים ׀ נִפְתַּ֛לְתִּי...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    SONS BORN TO JACOB Genesis 30:1 The details of this paragraph are given with great minuteness, because they concern the twelve sons of Jacob, the forefathers of Israel. After all, history is made in...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In reading these stories we must never forget that we are looking at things as they were in that far-gone time and must make all necessary allowances for the imperfect light in which these people live...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Rachel and Jacob were naturally frustrated by her inability to bear children. Like Sarah before her, Rachel chose to have a child through her handmaid, Bilhah. The son born of the handmaid was named D...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, (c) and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali. (c) The arrogancy of man's nature appears in that she condemns her s...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Great wrestlings. Hebrews wrestlings of God. Naphtali signifies my wrestlings....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    8._With great wrestlings _(74) Others translate it, “I am joined with the joinings of God;” (75) as if she exulted in having recovered what she had lost; or, certainly, in having obtained an equal deg...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND RACHEL SAID, WITH GREAT WRESTLINGS HAVE I WRESTLED WITH MY SISTER,.... Or, "with the wrestlings of God" a, wrestling and striving in prayer with God; being vehement and importunate in her petition...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali._ Ver. 8. _With great wrestlings._] Heb., With wrestlings of God; that i...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Rachel in griefe for her barrennesse, giueth Bilhah her mayd vnto Iacob. 5 She beareth Dan and Naphtali. 9 Leah giueth Zilpah her mayd, who beareth Gad and Asher. 14 Reuben findeth Mandrakes, wit...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed; and she called his name Naphtali (one obtained by wrestling), In the struggle between herself and Leah, yea...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The Sons of Bilhah and Zilpah...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

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  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN RACHEL AND LEAH The fruitfulness of Leah moved Rachel to jealousy, then her demand to Jacob for children moves him to anger (vs.1-2). We may see a serious lesson in Rachel's word...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    GREAT WRESTLINGS: _ Heb._ wrestlings of God NEPHTALI: That is, My wrestling...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 Rachel envied her sister: envy is grieving at the good of another, than which no sin is more hateful to God, or more hurtful to our neighbours and ourselves. She considered not that God made the...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WITH GREAT WRESTLINGS, Heb. _With wrestlings of God; _ either with great and hard wrestlings or strivings, or by wrestling with God in fervent prayer, and by God's grace and strength. _Cir. 1747_ I HA...

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    These Chapter s present to us the history of Jacob at least, the principal scenes in that history. The Spirit of God here sets before us the deepest instruction, first, as to God's purpose of infinite...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Genesis 30:8 Rachel H7354 said H559 (H8799) great H430 wrestlings H5319 wrestled H6617 (H8738) sister H269 prevailed...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And Bilhah, Rachel's handmaid, conceived again and bore Jacob a second son, and Rachel said, “With powerful wrestlings (literally ‘wrestlings of God') have I wrestled (niphtal) with my sister and hav...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Jacob's posterity in Padan-aram. Another bargain between Jacob and Laban. CHARACTERS: Rachael, Jacob, Laban, Leah, Joseph. CONCLUSION: The toiling and scheming of men is the result of igno...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Genesis 30:2. _Am I in God's stead._ Rachel's impatience provoked Jacob's anger, because she asked of man whist was the prerogative of God to give. The rabbins remark here, that God keeps in his own h...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _With great wrestlings have I wrestled_ GREAT WRESTLINGS Thus speaks Rachel; and this woman’s experience, multiplied as it is a thousand-fold in hearts that never told their struggles, shows us that...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Rachel envied her sister._ RACHEL’S IMPATIENCE I. IT WAS UNGODLY. 1. She was the victim of unholy passions. Envy and jealousy. 2. She took a despairing view of life. 3. She failed rightly to rec...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    GENESIS—NOTE ON GENESIS 30:3 Because of her barrenness, Rachel offers Jacob her servant BILHAH as a substitute wife (v. Genesis 30:3). This was a common practice in an

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Genesis 30:1. Give me children, or else I die.] Heb. “If none, I am a dead woman.” As to the raising up of seed, I shall be as good as dead. An old Jewish proverb says, “The childles...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION GENESIS 30:1 AND WHEN RACHEL SAW (apparently after, though probably before, the birth of Leah's fourth son) THAT SHE BARE JACOB NO CHILDREN (literally, _that she bare not to Jacob_),_ _RAC...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now when Rachel saw that she could not bare Jacob children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I'm going to die. And Jacob was angry with her: and he said, Am I...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    great wrestlings. Heb. wrestlings of God. Genesis 23:6 Genesis 32:24 Exodus 9:28 1 Samuel 14:15 and she....

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