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 assemblies. To him who overcomes, to him I will give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name written, which no one knows but he who receives it.
• Gen 35:10God said to him, “Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel.” He named him Israel.
• Isa 62:2–4The nations will see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you will be called by a new name, which Yahweh‘s mouth will name.
• Hos 12:3–5In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he contended with God.
• Gen 27:33–36Isaac trembled violently, and said, “Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed.”
• Gen 17:5Your name will no more be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham; for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
• Gen 17:15God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah.
• Isa 65:15You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,
• Gen 33:4Esau ran to meet him, embraced him, fell on his neck, kissed him, and they wept.
• Gen 25:31Jacob said, “First, sell me your birthright.”
• Prov 16:7When a man’s ways please Yahweh, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• John 1:42He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him, and said, “You are Simon the son of Jonah. You shall be called Cephas” (which is by interpretation, Peter).
• 2 Sam 12:25and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he named him Jedidiah, for Yahweh’s sake.
• Gen 31:36–55Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, “What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued me?
• 1 Sam 26:25Then Saul said to David, “You are blessed, my son David. You will both do mightily, and will surely prevail.” So David went his way, and Saul returned to his place.
• 2 Kgs 17:34To this day they do what they did before. They don’t fear Yahweh, and they do not follow the statutes, or the ordinances, or the law, or the commandment which Yahweh commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
• Gen 31:24God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, “Be careful that you don’t speak to Jacob either good or bad.”
• Gen 32:24Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
• Num 13:16These are the names of the men who Moses sent to spy out the land. Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua.
• 1 Kgs 18:31Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom Yahweh’s word came, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”
• Gen 33:20He erected an altar there, and called it El Elohe Israel.

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