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Wrestling

נַפְתּוּלִיםStrong’s H5319

naphtul (naph-tul)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Naphtul is the Hebrew word usually translated “wrestling of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“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
Meaning
  1. Wrestlings
How it's translated
  • wrestling of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    נַפְתּוּלִים naphtul · wrestling

    wrestlings

    From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “wrestling” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    WRESTLING, participle passive

    Striving to throw; contending.

      All definitions and other forms of “wrestling”

        WRESTLING, noun

        Strife; struggle; contention.

          Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

          Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.