Genesis 30:8

8 Da sprach Rahel: Gott hat es gewandt mit mir und meiner Schwester, und ich werde es ihr zuvortun. Und hieß ihn Naphthali. {~}

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 meine Sache gerichtet und meine Stimme erhört und mir einen Sohn gegeben. Darum hieß sie ihn Dan.

7 Abermals ward Bilha, Rahels Magd, schwanger und gebar Jakob den andern Sohn.

8 Da sprach Rahel: Gott hat es gewandt mit mir und meiner Schwester, und ich werde es ihr zuvortun. Und hieß ihn Naphthali. {~}

9 Da nun Lea sah, daß sie aufgehört hatte zu gebären, nahm sie ihre Magd Silpa und gab sie Jakob zum Weibe.

10 Also gebar Silpa, Leas Magd, Jakob einen Sohn.