the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Strong's #5321 - נַפְתָּלִי
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- Naphtali = "wrestling"
- n pr m
- the 5th son of Jacob and the 2nd by Bilhah the handmaid of Rachel
- the tribe descended from Naphtali the son of Jacob
- n pr loc
- the territory assigned to the tribe of Naphtali
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1 second son of Jacob and Bilhah Genesis 30:8 (J), Genesis 35:25; Genesis 46:24 (P), 1 Chronicles 2:2, compare Genesis 49:21 (poem).
2 as a tribe of Israel:
a. Judges 1:33; Judges 4:10; Judges 5:18; Deuteronomy 33:23 (twice in verse) +; so (Hexateuch, only P) ׳בְּנֵי נ Judges 4:6; Numbers 1:42 6t., ׳מַטֵּה נ Numbers 2:29; 1 Kings 7:14 5t., ׳מַטֵּה בְּנֵי נ Numbers 10:27; Numbers 34:28; Joshua 19:39; ׳שַׁעַר נ Ezekiel 48:34 (in new Jerusalem); ׳אֶרֶץ נ 1 Kings 15:20; 2 Kings 15:29, compare Isaiah 8:23; ׳קֶדֶשׁ נ Judges 4:6; ׳הַר נ Joshua 20:7; ׳גְּבוּל נ Ezekiel 48:4, ׳יָ֫מָּה נ Ezekiel 48:3; ׳עָרֵי נ 2 Chronicles 16:4.
b. as territorial name Deuteronomy 34:2 (JE) 1 Kings 4:15; 1 Chronicles 12:41 (van d. H. v. 1 Chronicles 12:40), 2 Chronicles 34:6; Judges 6:35; Judges 7:23 might be a or
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נַפְתָּלִי (“my strife,” see Genesis 30:8), pr. name, Naphtali, a son of Jacob by his concubine Bilhah; the ancestor of the tribe of that name, the bounds of whose territory are described -Joshua 19:3239. LXX. Νεφθαλείμ.