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# נַפְתּוּלִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5319

**wrestlings** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

wrestlings [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5319/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נַפְתּוּלִים²: pl. wrestlings Niph. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5319/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\]pl. wrestlings (cf. √ Niph. Pf.);—cstr. נַפְתּוּלֵי א׳ Gn 30:8 wrestlings of God, i.e. mighty wrestlings.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: wrestling(s) (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 30:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.8/#tree)

וַתֹּ֣אמֶר רָחֵ֗ל נַפְתּוּלֵ֨י אֱלֹהִ֧ים ׀ נִפְתַּ֛לְתִּי עִם־אֲחֹתִ֖י גַּם־יָכֹ֑לְתִּי וַתִּקְרָ֥א שְׁמ֖וֹ נַפְתָּלִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and she.said Rachel wrestling(s) of.God I.have.wrestled with sister my also I.have.prevailed and she.called name his Naphtali

*JPS 1917:* And Rachel said: 'With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.' And she called his name Naphtali.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5319.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5319/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).