‏ Genesis 32:28-30

Thy name Gen 17:5, Gen 17:15, Gen 33:20, Gen 35:10; Num 13:16; 2Sam 12:25; 2Kgs 17:34; Isa 62:2-4; Isa 65:15; John 1:42; Rev 2:17

Israel i.e. a prince of God

as a prince Or, according to the LXX, Vulgate, Houbigant, Dathe, and Rosenmuller, "because thou hast power with God, thou shalt also prevail with men." There is a beautiful antithesis between the two terms, with ΰμδιν, Elohim, God, the Almighty, with ΰπωΡιν, anashim, weak, feeble men, as the word imports; seeing thou hast had power with the Almighty, surely thou shalt prevail over perishing mortals.

power Gen 32:24; Hos 12:3-5

with men Gen 25:31, Gen 27:33-36, Gen 31:24, Gen 31:36-55, Gen 33:4; 1Sam 26:25; Prov 16:7

Wherefore Gen 32:27; Deut 29:29; Judg 13:16-18; Job 11:7; Prov 30:4; Isa 9:6; Luke 1:19

blessed Gen 32:26, Gen 27:28-29, Gen 28:3-4, Gen 28:13-14; Hos 6:1

Jacob Gen 32:31

Peniel Gen 28:19; Judg 8:8, Judg 8:17; 1Kgs 12:25

Peniel i.e. the face of God, Peniel, or Penuel, was evidently situated near the ford of Jabbok, on the north of that stream, about forty miles from Jerusalem.

I have Gen 16:13; Exod 24:10-11, Exod 33:14, Exod 33:19-23; Num 12:8; Deut 5:24, Deut 34:10; Judg 6:22-23, Judg 13:21-22; Isa 6:5; John 1:18; 2Cor 3:18, 2Cor 4:6; Gal 1:6; Eph 1:17; Col 1:15; 2Tim 1:10; Heb 11:27

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