Genesis 32:28

The man renames Jacob 'Israel,' for he has striven with God and men and prevailed. The new name marks a transformed identity and God's blessing.

Cross-references · 21

• Rev 2:17He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who overcomes, I will give the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone inscribed with a new name, known only to the one who receives it.
• Gen 35:10And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
• Isa 62:2–4Nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory. You will be called by a new name that the mouth of the LORD will bestow.
• Hos 12:3–5In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
• Gen 27:33–36Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
• Gen 17:5No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
• Gen 17:15Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
• Isa 65:15You will leave behind your name as a curse for My chosen ones, and the Lord GOD will slay you; but to His servants He will give another name.
• Gen 33:4Esau, however, ran to him and embraced him, threw his arms around his neck, and kissed him. And they both wept.
• Gen 25:31“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
• Prov 16:7When a man’s ways please the LORD, He makes even the man’s enemies live at peace with him.
• John 1:42Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).
• 2 Sam 12:25and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.
• Gen 31:36–55Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
• 1 Sam 26:25Saul said to him, “May you be blessed, David my son. You will accomplish great things and will surely prevail.” So David went on his way, and Saul returned home.
• 2 Kgs 17:34To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
• Gen 31:24But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
• Gen 32:24So Jacob was left all alone, and there a man wrestled with him until daybreak.
• Num 13:16These were the names of the men Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses gave to Hoshea son of Nun the name Joshua.
• 1 Kgs 18:31And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”
• Gen 33:20There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.

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