Genesis 32:28

Geneva Bible (1560)

Then said he, Thy name shalbe called Iaakob no more, but Israel: because thou hast had power with God, thou shalt also preuaile with men.

📖 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 Moreouer God said vnto him, Thy name is Iaakob: thy name shalbe no more called Iaakob, but Israel shalbe thy name: and hee called his name Israel.
• Gen 17:5 : 5 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shalbe Abraham: for a father of many nations haue I made thee.
• 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 Vnto this day they doe after the olde maner: they neyther feare God, neyther doe after their ordinances, nor after their customes, nor after the Lawe, nor after the commaundement, which the Lord commanded the children of Iaakob, whom he named Israel,
• Rev 2:17 : 17 Let him that hath an eare, heare what the Spirite saith vnto the Churches. To him that ouercommeth, will I giue to eate of the Manna that is hid, and will giue him a white stone, and in the stone a newe name written, which no man knoweth sauing he that receiueth it.
• Isa 65:15 : 15 And ye shal leaue your name as a curse vnto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay you and call his seruants by another name.
• Hos 12:3-5 : 3 Hee tooke his brother by the heele in the wombe, and by his strength he had power with God, 4 And had power ouer the Angel, and preuailed: he wept and praied vnto him: he founde him in Beth-el, and there he spake with vs. 5 Yea, the Lorde God of hostes, the Lorde is himselfe his memoriall.
• Gen 33:4 : 4 Then Esau ranne to meete him, and embraced him, and fell on his necke, and kissed him, & they wept.
• Gen 33:20 : 20 And he set vp there an altar, and called it, The mightie God of Israel.
• Prov 16:7 : 7 When the wayes of a man please the Lord, he will make also his enemies at peace with him.
• Isa 62:2-4 : 2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousnesse, and all Kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shal name. 3 Thou shalt also be a crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royall diademe in the hand of thy God. 4 It shall no more be sayd vnto thee, Forsaken, neither shal it be said any more to thy land, Desolate, but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lorde deliteth in thee, and thy land shall haue an husband.
• John 1:42 : 42 And he brought him to Iesus; Iesus behelde him, and saide, Thou art Simon the sonne of Iona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, a stone.
• Gen 17:15 : 15 Afterward God said vnto Abraham, Sarai thy wife shalt thou not call Sarai, but Sarah shalbe her name.
• Gen 25:31 : 31 And Iaakob sayd, Sell me euen nowe thy birthright.
• Gen 27:33-36 : 33 Then Izhak was stricken with a marueilous great feare, and sayde, Who and where is hee that hunted venison, and brought it mee, and I haue eate of all before thou camest? And I haue blessed him, therefore he shalbe blessed. 34 When Esau heard the wordes of his father, he cryed out with a great crye and bitter, out of measure, and sayde vnto his father, Blesse me, euen me also, my father. 35 Who answered, Thy brother came with subtiltie, and hath taken away thy blessing. 36 Then he sayde, Was hee not iustly called Iaakob? for hee hath deceiued mee these two times: he tooke my birthright, and loe, nowe hath he taken my blessing. Also he sayd, Hast thou not reserued a blessing for me?
• Gen 31:24 : 24 And God came to Laban the Aramite in a dreame by night, and sayde vnto him, Take heede that thou speake not to Iaakob ought saue good.
• Gen 31:36-55 : 36 The Iaakob was wroth, and chode with Laban: Iaakob also answered and sayd to Laban, What haue I trespassed? what haue I offended, that thou hast pursued after me? 37 Seeing thou hast searched all my stuffe, what hast thou foud of all thine houshold stuffe? put it here before my brethren & thy brethren, that they may iudge betweene vs both. 38 This twenty yere I haue bin with thee: thine ewes & thy goates haue not cast their yong, and the rammes of thy flocke haue I not eaten. 39 Whatsoeuer was torne of beasts, I brought it not vnto thee, but made it good my selfe: of mine hand diddest thou require it, were it stollen by day or stollen by night. 40 I was in the day consumed with heate, and with frost in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine eyes. 41 Thus haue I bene twentie yeere in thine house, and serued thee fourteene yeeres for thy two daughters, and sixe yeeres for thy sheepe, and thou hast changed my wages tenne times. 42 Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Izhak had bene with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe emptie: but God behelde my tribulation, & the labour of mine hads, & rebuked thee yester night. 43 Then Laban answered, and saide vnto Iaakob, These daughters are my daughters, & these sonnes are my sonnes, and these sheepe are my sheepe, and all that thou seest, is mine, and what can I doe this day vnto these my daughters, or to their sonnes which they haue borne? 44 Nowe therefore come and let vs make a couenant, I and thou, which may be a witnes betweene me and thee. 45 Then tooke Iaakob a stone, and set it vp as a pillar: 46 And Iaakob sayde vnto his brethren, Gather stones: who brought stones, and made an heape, and they did eate there vpon the heape. 47 And Laban called it Iegar-sahadutha, and Iaakob called it Galeed. 48 For Laban sayd, This heape is witnesse betweene me and thee this day: therefore he called the name of it Galeed. 49 Also he called it Mizpah, because he said, The Lorde looke betweene me and thee, when we shalbe departed one from another, 50 If thou shalt vexe my daughters, or shalt take wiues beside my daughters: there is no man with vs, beholde, God is witnesse betweene me and thee. 51 Moreouer Laban sayd to Iaakob, Beholde this heape, and behold the pillar, which I haue set betweene me and thee, 52 This heape shall be witnesse, and the pillar shall be witnesse, that I will not come ouer this heape to thee, and that thou shalt not passe ouer this heape and this pillar vnto me for euill. 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nabor, and the God of their father be iudge betweene vs: But Iaakob sware by the feare of his father Izhak. 54 Then Iaakob did offer a sacrifice vpon the mount, and called his brethren to eate bread; they did eate bread, and taried all night in the mount. 55 And earely in the morning Laban rose vp and kissed his sonnes and his daughters, & blessed them, & Laban departing, went vnto his place againe.
• Gen 32:24 : 24 Now when Iaakob was left him selfe alone, there wrestled a man with him vnto the breaking of the day.
• Num 13:16 : 16 (13:17) These are the names of the men, which Moses sent to spie out the lande: and Moses called ye name of Oshea the sonne of Nun, Iehoshua.
• 1 Sam 26:25 : 25 Then Saul said to Dauid, Blessed art thou, my sonne Dauid: for thou shalt doe great things, and also preuaile. So Dauid went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
• 2 Sam 12:25 : 25 For the Lorde had sent by Nathan the Prophet: therefore he called his name Iedidiah, because the Lord loued him.
• 1 Kgs 18:31 : 31 And Eliiah tooke twelue stones, according to the nomber of the tribes of the sonnes of Iaakob, (vnto whome the worde of the Lord came, saying, Israel shalbe thy name)