Genesis 32:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

“No longer will your name be Jacob,” the man told him,“but Israel, because you have fought with God and with men and have prevailed.”

📖 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 God said to him,“Your name is Jacob, but your name will no longer be called Jacob; Israel will be your name.” So God named him Israel.
• Gen 17:5 : 5 No longer will your name be Abram. Instead, your name will be Abraham because I will make you the father of a multitude of nations.
• 2 Kgs 17:34 : 34 To this very day they observe their earlier practices. They do not worship the LORD; they do not obey the rules, regulations, law, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom he renamed Israel.
• Rev 2:17 : 17 The one who has an ear had better hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who conquers, I will give him some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on that stone will be written a new name that no one can understand except the one who receives it.’
• Isa 65:15 : 15 Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The Sovereign LORD will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.
• Hos 12:3-5 : 3 Israel Must Return to the God of Jacob In the womb he attacked his brother; in his manly vigor he struggled with God. 4 He struggled with an angel and prevailed; he wept and begged for his favor. He found God at Bethel, and there he spoke with him! 5 As for the LORD God Almighty, the LORD is the name by which he is remembered!
• Gen 33:4 : 4 But Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, hugged his neck, and kissed him. Then they both wept.
• Gen 33:20 : 20 There he set up an altar and called it“The God of Israel is God.”
• Prov 16:7 : 7 When a person’s ways are pleasing to the LORD, he even reconciles his enemies to himself.
• Isa 62:2-4 : 2 Nations will see your vindication, and all kings your splendor. You will be called by a new name that the LORD himself will give you. 3 You will be a majestic crown in the hand of the LORD, a royal turban in the hand of your God. 4 You will no longer be called,“Abandoned,” and your land will no longer be called“Desolate.” Indeed, you will be called“My Delight is in Her,” and your land“Married.” For the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be married to him.
• John 1:42 : 42 Andrew brought Simon to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said,“You are Simon, the son of John. You will be called Cephas”(which is translated Peter).
• Gen 17:15 : 15 Then God said to Abraham,“As for your wife, you must no longer call her Sarai; Sarah will be her name.
• Gen 25:31 : 31 But Jacob replied,“First sell me your birthright.”
• Gen 27:33-36 : 33 Isaac began to shake violently and asked,“Then who else hunted game and brought it to me? I ate all of it just before you arrived, and I blessed him. He will indeed be blessed!” 34 When Esau heard his father’s words, he wailed loudly and bitterly. He said to his father,“Bless me too, my father!” 35 But Isaac replied,“Your brother came in here deceitfully and took away your blessing.” 36 Esau exclaimed,“‘Jacob is the right name for him! He has tripped me up two times! He took away my birthright, and now, look, he has taken away my blessing!” Then he asked,“Have you not kept back a blessing for me?”
• Gen 31:24 : 24 But God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream at night and warned him,“Be careful that you neither bless nor curse Jacob.”
• Gen 31:36-55 : 36 Jacob became angry and argued with Laban.“What did I do wrong?” he demanded of Laban.“What sin of mine prompted you to chase after me in hot pursuit? 37 When you searched through all my goods, did you find anything that belonged to you? Set it here before my relatives and yours, and let them settle the dispute between the two of us! 38 “I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks. 39 Animals torn by wild beasts I never brought to you; I always absorbed the loss myself. You always made me pay for every missing animal, whether it was taken by day or at night. 40 I was consumed by scorching heat during the day and by piercing cold at night, and I went without sleep. 41 This was my lot for twenty years in your house: I worked like a slave for you– fourteen years for your two daughters and six years for your flocks, but you changed my wages ten times! 42 If the God of my father– the God of Abraham, the one whom Isaac fears– had not been with me, you would certainly have sent me away empty-handed! But God saw how I was oppressed and how hard I worked, and he rebuked you last night.” 43 Laban replied to Jacob,“These women are my daughters, these children are my grandchildren, and these flocks are my flocks. All that you see belongs to me. But how can I harm these daughters of mine today or the children to whom they have given birth? 44 So now, come, let’s make a formal agreement, you and I, and it will be proof that we have made peace.” 45 So Jacob took a stone and set it up as a memorial pillar. 46 Then he said to his relatives,“Gather stones.” So they brought stones and put them in a pile. They ate there by the pile of stones. 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 Laban said,“This pile of stones is a witness of our agreement today.” That is why it was called Galeed. 49 It was also called Mizpah because he said,“May the LORD watch between us when we are out of sight of one another. 50 If you mistreat my daughters or if you take wives besides my daughters, although no one else is with us, realize that God is witness to your actions.” 51 “Here is this pile of stones and this pillar I have set up between me and you,” Laban said to Jacob. 52 “This pile of stones and the pillar are reminders that I will not pass beyond this pile to come to harm you and that you will not pass beyond this pile and this pillar to come to harm me. 53 May the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob took an oath by the God whom his father Isaac feared. 54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain. 55 (32:1) Early in the morning Laban kissed his grandchildren and his daughters goodbye and blessed them. Then Laban left and returned home.
• Gen 32:24 : 24 So Jacob was left alone. Then a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
• Num 13:16 : 16 These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to investigate the land. And Moses gave Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
• 1 Sam 26:25 : 25 Saul replied to David,“May you be rewarded, my son David! You will without question be successful!” So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place.
• 2 Sam 12:25 : 25 and sent word through Nathan the prophet that he should be named Jedidiah for the LORD’s sake.
• 1 Kgs 18:31 : 31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the LORD’s message had come,“Israel will be your name.”