Person

Naphtali

נַפְתָּלִי

My wrestling.

Naphtali is Jacob’s son by Bilhah. His tribe settled in Galilee of the nations, land later walked by Yahshua.

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נַפְתָּלִי H5321

Naphtâlîy · naf-taw-lee'

Naphtali, a son of Jacob, with the tribe descended from him, and its territory

from H6617 (פָּתַל); my wrestling;

KJV glosses: Naphtali.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Francis Brown, S. R. Driver, and Charles A. Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906). Public-domain digital text.

נַפְתָּלִי H5321

Biblical Hebrew

נַפְתָּלִי proper name, masculine and of a tribe Naphtali, Νεφθαλει (μ), etc. (interpreted as my wrestling Gen 30:8 perhaps originally crafty, cunning one); — 1. second son of Jacob and Bilhah Gen 30:8 (J), Gen 35:25; Gen 46:24 (P), 1Chr 2:2, compare Gen 49:21 (poem).

2. as a tribe of Israel:

a. Judg 1:33; Judg 4:10; Judg 5:18; Deut 33:23 (twice in verse) +; so (Hexateuch, only P) ׳בְּנֵי נ Judg 4:6; Num 1:42 + 6 t., ׳מַטֵּה נ Num 2:29; 1Kgs 7:14 + 5 t., ׳מַטֵּה בְּנֵי נ Num 10:27; Num 34:28; Josh 19:39 ׳שַׁעַר נ Ezek 48:34 (in new Jerusalem); ׳אֶרֶץ נ 1Kgs 15:20; 2Kgs 15:29, compare Isa 8:23 ׳קֶדֶשׁ נ Judg 4:6 ׳הַר נ Josh 20:7 ׳גְּבוּל נ Ezek 48:4, ׳יָ֫מָּה נ vEzek 48:3 ׳עָרֵי נ 2Chr 16:4.

b. as territorial name Deut 34:2 (JE) 1Kgs 4:15; 1Chr 12:41 (van d. H. v.1Chr 12:40), 2Chr 34:6; Judg 6:35; Judg 7:23 might be a or