28 “Your name will no longer be Jacob,”(A) He said. “It will be Israel[a] because you have struggled with God(B) and with men and have prevailed.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 32:28 In Hb, the name Israel sounds like “he struggled (with) God.”

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