Genesis 30:8 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.

Naphtali - i:e., wrestling. In bestowing this name she had a reference, in the opinion of some, to her bitter contentious and rivalry with her sister, but in the judgment of others, to her wrestling with God in prayer.

Genesis 30:8

8 And Rachel said, With greatb wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.