Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
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Bilhah, Rachel’s servant, conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
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And Bilhah Rachel’s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son.
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And Bilhah Rachel's handmaid conceived again, and bore Jacob a second son.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And Rachel said, with great wrestlings have I wrestled…
And Rachel said, with great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister,.... Or, "with the wrestlings of God" (a), wrestling and striving in prayer with God; being vehement and importunate in her petitions to him, that she might have children as well as her sister: some render it, "I used the craftinesses of God", or "great craftiness with my sisters" (b); by giving her maid Bilhah to her husband, and having children by her:
and I have prevailed; as she strove in her desires and prayers to have another child before her sister had; in that she prevailed, or she was succeeded in her desires, she had children as she wished to have:
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and she called his name Naphtali; which signifies "my wrestling", being a child she had been striving and wrestling for: these two sons of Bilhah were born, as say the Jews, Dan on the twenty ninth day of Elul or August, and lived one hundred and twenty seven years; Naphtali on the fifth of Tisri or September, and lived one hundred and thirty three years.
(a) "luctationibus Dei", Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Cartwright. (b) "Calliditatibus Dei, Oleaster, astutiis Dei", Schmidt.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Vers. 7, 8. And Bilhah Rachel"s maid conceived again,…
Vers. 7, 8. And Bilhah Rachel"s maid conceived again, and bare Jacob a second son. And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, literally, wrestlings of God have I wrestled with my sister , meaning, by "wrestlings of Elohim;" not great wrestlings in rivalry, with Leah (A.V Vatablus, Ainsworth, Rosenm Calvin), nor wrestlings in the cause of God, as being unwilling to leave the founding of the nation to her sister alone (Knobel), but wrestlings with God in prayer (Delitzsch, Lange, Murphy, Kalisch), wrestlings regarding Elohim and his grace (Hengstenberg, Keil), in which she at the same time contended with her sister, to whom apparently that grace had been hitherto restrictedand I have prevailed (scarcely in the sense of achieving a victory over Leah, who had already borne four sons, but in the sense of drawing the Divine favor, though only indirectly, towards herself): and she called his name Naphtali i.e. "My Wrestling."
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Bilhah ... conceived again
Bilhah ... conceived again
"Bilhah ... became pregnant again"
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bore Jacob a second son
"gave birth to a second son for Jacob"
With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister
The phrase "wrestlings have I wrestled" is an idiom used for emphasis. It is also a metaphor that speaks of Rachel's attempts to have a child like her sister as if she were having a physical fight with Leah. AT: "I have had a great struggle to have children like my older sister, Leah" (See: Idiom and Metaphor)
have prevailed
"I have won" or "I have succeeded"
called his name Naphtali
Translators may also add a footnote that says "The name Naphtali means 'my struggle.'"
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Rachel
Naphtali
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 30:7-8 The name Naphtali is related to the clause…
30:7-8 The name Naphtali is related to the clause I have struggled hard (Hebrew naptule ’elohim niptalti, “I have struggled the struggles of God”).
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