Genesis 35:10
in Genesis 35And 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.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
KJV
And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel.
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This verse in Genesis 35
Commentary
6 notes on this verse(Verse 10) And God said to him, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel shall be your name: and he called his name Israel. For a long time, his name was not given to him by an angel, but it was predicted that it would be given by God. Therefore, what is promised to happen there is taught to be fulfilled here.
This site's exposition
God appeared to him again and blessed him
on Genesis 35:9-10
God appeared to Jacob again and blessed him, after he had returned from Paddan-aram. The name Israel is spoken over him a second time, three chapters after the man at the ford gave it. Jerome takes the first as promise and this as fulfilment. Wesley reads God confirming in person what the angel had said.
This site's exposition
you will no longer be called Jacob
After Genesis 17:5 the name Abram drops out of the account, and the name Jacob stays in use. Verse 21 calls him Israel, and verse 22 uses both names. At Genesis 46:2 God Himself calls to him, Jacob, Jacob.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
God now confirmed the change of his name. It was done before by the angel that wrestled with him, chap. xxxii, 28, and here it was ratified by the divine majesty, to encourage him against the fear of the Canaanites.
And God said unto him, thy name is Jacob,....
Who can be too hard for Israel, a prince with God? It is below those who are thus dignified to droop and despond. He renewed and ratified the covenant with him, by the name El-shaddai.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
G-d is saying, “Now you are still called Jacob even though the lord of Esau has changed your name. Above,:29. See Rashi, ibid., Verse, that it was “the lord of Esau” who strove with Jacob and then finally blessed him.
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
This is a blessing as in the account of the Creation. 6 Cf. I.E.’s comments on Gen.:26.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 3 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
19 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיֹּֽאמֶר־ | vaiyomer- | and he said | H559 → | 5305 times |
| ל֥וֹ | lo | to <the> him | ||
| אֱלֹהִ֖ים | ʾelohim | God | H430 → | 2601 times |
| שִׁמְךָ֣ | shimkha | name your | H8034 → | 864 times |
| יַעֲקֹ֑ב | yaako | [is] Jacob | H3290 → | 350 times |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| יִקָּרֵא֩ | yikare' | it will be called | H7121 → | 733 times |
| שִׁמְךָ֙ | shimkha | name your | H8034 → | 864 times |
| ע֜וֹד | od | again | H5750 → | 490 times |
| יַעֲקֹ֗ב | yaako | Jacob | H3290 → | 350 times |
| כִּ֤י | ki | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| אִם־ | ʾim- | except | H518 → | 1069 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
| יִהְיֶ֣ה | yihyeh | it will be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| שְׁמֶ֔ךָ | shemekha | name your | H8034 → | 864 times |
| וַיִּקְרָ֥א | vaiyikra' | and he called | H7121 → | 733 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| שְׁמ֖וֹ | shemo | name his | H8034 → | 864 times |
| יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ | yisrael | Israel | H3478 → | 2507 times |
וַיֹּֽאמֶר־and he said
vaiyomer-H559 →5305 times
ל֥וֹto <the> him
lo
אֱלֹהִ֖יםGod
ʾelohimH430 →2601 times
שִׁמְךָ֣name your
shimkhaH8034 →864 times
יַעֲקֹ֑ב[is] Jacob
yaakoH3290 →350 times
לֹֽא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
יִקָּרֵא֩it will be called
yikare'H7121 →733 times
שִׁמְךָ֙name your
shimkhaH8034 →864 times
ע֜וֹדagain
odH5750 →490 times
יַעֲקֹ֗בJacob
yaakoH3290 →350 times
כִּ֤יthat
kiH3588 →4482 times
אִם־except
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Israel
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
יִהְיֶ֣הit will be
yihyehH1961 →3559 times
שְׁמֶ֔ךָname your
shemekhaH8034 →864 times
וַיִּקְרָ֥אand he called
vaiyikra'H7121 →733 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
שְׁמ֖וֹname his
shemoH8034 →864 times
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Israel
yisraelH3478 →2507 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Genesis 17:5No longer will you be called Abram, but your name will be Abraham, for I have made you a father of many nations.
it leads to
- Matthew 1:21–23
She will give birth to a Son, and you are to give Him the name Jesus, because He will save His people from their sins.”
- Nehemiah 9:7
You are the LORD, the God who chose Abram, who brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham.
- Romans 4:17
As it is written: “I have made you a father of many nations.” He is our father in the presence of God, in whom he believed, the God who gives life to the dead…
- Genesis 17:15
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
- Matthew 1:21–23
Through
1 Kings 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.”
it leads to
- Genesis 32:28
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
Reached by 4 separate paths from here.
- 2 Kings 17:34
To 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…
- Joshua 4:20
And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
- Joshua 4:3–4
and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend…
- Genesis 32:28
Where this verse is studied
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About Genesis
Who and where
1 name in this verse with a page on the site.
This page draws on Jerome, Hebrew Questions on Genesis; John Calvin, Commentary on Genesis; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.