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Naphtali

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Name meaning

"my wrestling" · Hebrew

"With great wrestlings have I wrestled" (Genesis 30:8).

About

Sixth son of Jacob, born to Bilhah. Rachel named him Naphtali ('my struggle'). Jacob blessed him as 'a doe set free.' His tribe's territory in Galilee is where Isaiah foretold a great light would dawn — fulfilled in the ministry of Jesus.

Relationships
FatherJacobFather
MotherBilhahMother, Rachel's servant
Key Scripture AppearancesKJV
Genesis 30:8
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.Genesis 30:8, KJV
Genesis 49:21
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.Genesis 49:21, KJV
Isaiah 9:1
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.Isaiah 9:1, KJV
Matthew 4:15
The land of Zabulon, and the land of Nephthalim, by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles;Matthew 4:15, KJV

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