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28 ‘Zo zult u niet langer heten,’ vertelde de Ander hem. ‘Voortaan heet u Israël, want u hebt met God en de mensen gestreden en overwonnen.’

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28 Then the man said, “Your name(A) will no longer be Jacob, but Israel,[a](B) because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:28 Israel probably means he struggles with God.

28 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.

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