Génesis 35:10

10 Y le dijo Dios: Tu nombre es Jacob; no se llamará más tu nombre Jacob, sino Israel será tu nombre; y llamó su nombre Israel

Génesis 35:10 Meaning and Commentary

Genesis 35:10

And God said unto him, thy name [is] Jacob
Which his parents gave him at his birth, and by, which he had been always called: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy
name;
not Jacob only, as Aben Ezra and Ben Melech interpret it, but Israel also, and that more commonly and frequently, and not only he himself personally, but his posterity also: and he called his name Israel;
confirmed the name he had before given him, ( Genesis 32:28 ) ; and by this confirmation of it signifying, that as he had prevailed over his brother Esau, and escaped his hands, so he should prevail over all that rose up against him, and opposed him, even as he had power with God, and prevailed: though some think this name was only promised him before, but now actually given him; but then they take the angel that appeared wrestling with him in the likeness of a man to be a created angel, and that what he promised in the name of God was now made, good by God himself; there is great reason to believe that that angel was the increased one, the Son of God, as here also.

Génesis 35:10 In-Context

8 Entonces murió Débora, ama de Rebeca, y fue sepultada a las raíces de Bet-el, debajo de un alcornoque; y se llamó su nombre Alón-bacut

9 Y se apareció otra vez Dios a Jacob, cuando se había vuelto de Padan-aram, y le bendijo

10 Y le dijo Dios: Tu nombre es Jacob; no se llamará más tu nombre Jacob, sino Israel será tu nombre; y llamó su nombre Israel

11 Y le dijo Dios: Yo soy el Dios Omnipotente: crece y multiplícate; una nación y compañía de naciones (gentiles) saldrá de ti, y reyes saldrán de tus lomos

12 y la tierra que yo he dado a Abraham y a Isaac, la daré a ti; y a tu simiente después de ti daré la tierra