Genesis 30:8
Good News Translation
Rachel said, "I have fought a hard fight with my sister, but I have won"; so she named him Naphtali.

New Revised Standard Version
Then Rachel said, “With mighty wrestlings I have wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed”; so she named him Naphtali.

Contemporary English Version
Rachel said, "I've struggled hard with my sister, and I've won!" So she named the boy Naphtali.

New American Bible
and Rachel said, “I have wrestled strenuously with my sister, and I have prevailed.” So she named him Naphtali.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.

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For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.

great wrestlings.

Genesis 23:6 My lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principal sepulchres: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulchre.

Genesis 32:24 He remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till morning.

Exodus 9:28 Pray ye to the Lord that the thunderings of God and the hail may cease: that I may let you go, and that ye may stay here no longer.

1 Samuel 14:15 And there was a miracle in the camp, in the fields: and all the people of their garrison, who had gone out to plunder, were amazed, and the earth trembled: and it happened as a miracle from God.

*marg:

and she.

Genesis 35:25 The sons of Bala, Rachel's handmaid: Dan and Nephthali.

Genesis 46:24 The sons of Nephthali: Jaziel and Guni, and Jeser and Sallem.

Genesis 49:21 Nephthali, a hart let loose, and giving words of beauty.

Deuteronomy 33:23 And To Nephtali he said: Nephtali shall enjoy abundance, and shall be full of the blessings of the Lord: he shall possess the sea and the south.

Naphtali.

Genesis 32:24,25 He remained alone; and behold, a man wrestled with him till morning. . . .

Matthew 4:13 And leaving the city Nazareth, he came and dwelt in Capharnaum on the sea coast, in the borders of Zabulon and of Nephthalim;

Nephthalim.

Context
Dan and Naphtali
7And again Bala conceived, and bore another, 8For whom Rachel said: God hath compared me with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called him Nephthali.
Cross References
Genesis 30:7
And again Bala conceived, and bore another,

Genesis 30:9
Lia perceiving that she had left of bearing, gave Zelpha, her handmaid, to her husband.

Numbers 2:29
Of the tribe of the sons of Nephtali the prince was Ahira the son of Enan.

Genesis 30:7
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