Genesis 32:28

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 Jacob the Supplanter, the Crafty one, the Overreacher, but Israel the Perseverer with God, who is worthy also to prevail': cp. Hosea 12:4. 'The incident serves to explain further the name Penuel, “Face of God” “for,” said Jacob, “I have seen God face to face, and yet my life is preserved” (in allusion to the belief that no one could “see God and live,” Exodus 19:21; Exodus 33:20; Judges 6:22; Judges 13:22). The narrator deduces also from this incident the custom of not eating in animals the muscle corresponding to the one which was strained in Jacob's thigh; it was treated as sacred through the touch of God.' See HDB. art. 'Jacob.' As a prince hast thou power] RV 'Thou hast striven.'