Genesis 32:28

Coverdale Bible (1535)

He sayde: Thou shalt nomore be called Iacob, but Israel, for thou hast stryuen with God and with men, and hast preuayled.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר אֵלָ֖יו מַה־שְּׁמֶ֑ךָ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר יַעֲקֹֽב׃

Transliteration

wə-yōʾmer to-him what-name-your wə-yōʾmer yaʿăqōb.

Grammar Details

• *wə-yōʾmer*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect, 3rd masculine singular - and he said
• *mah-šəmekā*: interrogative + masculine singular noun + 2nd masculine singular suffix - what is your name

Word Meanings

• *yōʾmer*: to say, to speak, to ask
• *šəmekā*: your name, your renown

Referenced Verses

• Gen 35:10 : 10 & saide vnto him: Thou art called Iacob, neuertheles thou shalt nomore be called Iacob, but Israel shal be yi name. And so was he called Israel.
• Gen 17:5 : 5 Therfore shalt thou nomore be called Abram, but thy name shal be Abraham: For I haue made the a father of many nacions,
• 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 And vnto this daye do they after ye olde fashion, so yt they nether feare ye LORDE, ner yet kepe their awne ordinaunces and lawes, after the lawe and commaundement that the LORDE comaunded the childre of Iacob, vnto whom he gaue ye name of Israel,
• Rev 2:17 : 17 Let him yt hath eares, heare, what the sprete saith vnto the cogregacions: To him that ouercommeth, wil I geue to eate mana that is hyd, and wil geue him a whyte stone, & in the stone a newe name wrytte, which no man knoweth, sauinge he that receaueth it.
• Isa 65:15 : 15 Youre name shal not be sworne by amonge my chosen, for God the LORDE shal slaye you, and call his seruauntes by another name.
• Hos 12:3-5 : 3 He toke his brother by the hele, when he was yet in his mothers wombe: and in his strength he wrestled with God. 4 He stroue with the Angel, and gat the victory: so that he prayde and desyred him. He fande him at Bethel, & there he talked wt vs. 5 Yee the LORDE God of hoostes, euen ye LORDE him self remembred him:
• Gen 33:4 : 4 But Esau ranne to mete him, and enbraced him, and fell aboute his neck, & kyssed him, and wepte,
• Gen 33:20 : 20 and there he set vp an altare, and called vpon the name of the mightie God of Israel.
• Prov 16:7 : 7 When a mans wayes please ye LORDE, he maketh his very enemies to be his frendes.
• Isa 62:2-4 : 2 Then shal the Getiles se thy rightuousnesse & all kinges thy glory. Thou shalt be named with a new name, which the mouth of ye LORDE shal shewe. 3 Thou shalt be a crowne in the honde of the LORDE, and a glorious garlade in the hode of thy God. 4 From this tyme forth thou shalt neuer be called the forsake, & thy lode shal nomore be called the wildernesse. But thou shalt be called Hephziba (that is, my beloued) & yi londe Beula (that is) a maried woma: for ye LORDE loueth ye, & thy lode shalbe inhabited.
• John 1:42 : 42 and brought him to Iesus. Whan Iesus behelde him, he sayde: Thou art Symon the sonne of Ionas, thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretacion, a stone.
• Gen 17:15 : 15 And God sayde vnto Abraham: Sarai thy wyfe shall nomore be called Sarai, but Sara shal be hir name:
• Gen 25:31 : 31 But Iacob sayde: Sell me this daye thy byrthright.
• Gen 27:33-36 : 33 Then was Isaac exceadingly amased aboue measure, and saide: Who? Where is then the hunter that brought me, and I haue eaten of all afore thou camest, and haue blessed him? And he shall be blessed still. 34 Whan Esau herde these wordes of his father, he cried loude, and was exceadynge sory, and sayde vnto his father: O blesse me also my father. 35 But he sayde: Thy brother came with sotyltie, and hath taken thy blessinge awaye. 36 Then sayde he: He maye well be called Iacob, for he hath vndermined me now two tymes. My byrth right hath he awaye, and beholde, now taketh he awaye my blessynge also. And he sayde: Hast thou not kepte one blessynge for me?
• Gen 31:24 : 24 But God came vnto Laban the Syrian in a dreame by night, & sayde vnto him: Be warre, that thou speake nothinge to Iacob but good.
• Gen 31:36-55 : 36 And Iacob was wroth, and chode with Laban, answered & sayde vnto him: What haue I trespased or offended, yt thou art so whote vpon me? 37 Thou hast searched all my housholde stuff, & what hast thou founde of thy housholde stuff? Laye it here before my brethren & thyne, yt they maye iudge betwene vs both. 38 Twentye yeare haue I bene wt the: thy shepe & goates haue not bene vnfrutefull, the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten: 39 Loke what was torne of beastes, I brought it not vnto ye, I was fayne to paie it my self: thou requyredest it of my hande, whether it were stollen fro me by daye or by night. 40 On the daye tyme the heate cosumed me, and the frost on the night, and my slepe departed fro myne eyes. 41 Thus haue I serued twentye yeare in thy house, fourtene yeares for thy doughters, & sixe for thy flocke, and ten tymes hast thou chaunged my rewarde: 42 & yf the God of my father the God of Abraham, and the feare of Isaac had not bene on my syde, thou haddest latten me go awaye emptye. But God hath loked vpon myne aduersite and laboure, and rebuked the yesterdaye. 43 Laban answered and sayde: The doughters are my doughters, & the children are my childre, and the flockes are my flockes, & all that thou seist is myne. What can I do this daye vnto these my doughters, or to their children whom they haue borne? 44 Now therfore come on, let vs make a couenaunt (I & thou) which maye be a wytnesse betwene me and the. 45 Then toke Iacob a stone, & set it vp (for a piler or markstone) 46 and sayde vnto his brethren: Gather stones. And they toke the stones, and made an heape, & ate vpon the same heape. 47 And Laba called it Iegar Sahadutha, but Iacob called it Gilead: (either of them after the properte of his language.) 48 Then sayde Laban: This heape be wytnesse betwene me and the this daye (therfore is it called Gilead) 49 and a testimony, for he sayde: The LORDE loke betwene me and ye, whan we are departed ye one from ye other: 50 yf thou vexe my doughters, or take other wyues vnto them. There is no ma with vs, but lo, God is the wytnesse betwene me and the. 51 And Laban sayde morouer vnto Iacob: Beholde, this is the heape, and this is the marckstone that I haue set vp betwixte me and the: 52 the same heape be wytnesse, and the same marckstone also be wytnesse, yf I passe ouer vnto the, or yf thou passe ouer this heape & marckstone vnto me, to do eny harme. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, and the God of their fathers, be iudge betwene vs. And Iacob sware vnto him by the feare of his father Isaac. 54 And Iacob offred an offerynge vpon the mount, and called his brethre to eate bred. And whan they had eaten, they taried vpon the mount all night. 55 But vpon the morow Laban rose vp early, kyssed his childre & doughters, & blessed the, & departed, and came agayne vnto his place.
• Gen 32:24 : 24 and taried him self alone on this syde. Then wrestled there a man with him vntyll the breake of ye daye.
• Num 13:16 : 16 These are the names of the men, whom Moses sent forth to spye out the lande. As for Hosea the sonne of Nun, Moses called him Iosua.
• 1 Sam 26:25 : 25 Saul saide vnto Dauid: Blessed be thou Dauid my sonne, thou shalt do it, & be able. But Dauid wente his waye, and Saul turned agayne vnto his place.
• 2 Sam 12:25 : 25 And he put him vnder the hade of Nathan ye prophet, which called him Iedidia because of the LORDE.
• 1 Kgs 18:31 : 31 & toke twolue stones acordinge to the nombre of ye trybes of the childre of Iacob (vnto whom the worde of the LORDE spake, and sayde: Thy name shal be Israel)