Genesis 30:8

8 Da sprach Rahel: Kämpfe Gottes habe ich mit meiner Schwester gekämpft, habe auch obsiegt! Und sie gab ihm den Namen Naphtali.

Genesis 30:8 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 30:8

And Rachel said, with great wrestlings have I wrestled with my
sister
Or, "with the wrestlings of God" ^F1, wrestling and striving in prayer with God; being vehement and importunate in her petitions to him, that she might have children as well as her sister: some render it, "I used the craftinesses of God", or "great craftiness with my sisters" ^F2; by giving her maid Bilhah to her husband, and having children by her: and I have prevailed;
as she strove in her desires and prayers to have another child before her sister had; in that she prevailed, or she was succeeded in her desires, she had children as she wished to have: and she called his name Naphtali;
which signifies "my wrestling", being a child she had been striving and wrestling for: these two sons of Bilhah were born, as say the Jews, Dan on the twenty ninth day of Elul or August, and lived one hundred and twenty seven years; Naphtali on the fifth of Tisri or September, and lived one hundred and thirty three years.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (Myhla ylwtpn) "luctationibus Dei", Montanus, Vatablus, Drusius, Cartwright.
F2 "Calliditatibus Dei, Oleaster, astutiis Dei", Schmidt.

Genesis 30:8 In-Context

6 Da sprach Rahel: Gott hat mir Recht verschafft und auch auf meine Stimme gehört und mir einen Sohn gegeben! Darum gab sie ihm den Namen Dan.

7 Und Bilha, die Magd Rahels, ward wiederum schwanger und gebar dem Jakob einen zweiten Sohn.

8 Da sprach Rahel: Kämpfe Gottes habe ich mit meiner Schwester gekämpft, habe auch obsiegt! Und sie gab ihm den Namen Naphtali.

9 Und als Lea sah, daß sie aufhörte zu gebären, da nahm sie ihre Magd Silpa und gab sie Jakob zum Weibe.

10 Und Silpa, die Magd Leas, gebar dem Jakob einen Sohn.