Strong’s
H6617Verb5 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Genesis 30:8נִפְתַּלְתִּי
Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
- 2 Samuel 22:27תִּתַּפָּל
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
- Job 5:13נִפְתָּלִים
He catches the wise in their craftiness, and sweeps away the plans of the cunning.
- Psalm 18:26תִּתְפַּתָּל
to the pure You show Yourself pure, but to the crooked You show Yourself shrewd.
- Proverbs 8:8נִפְתָּל
All the words of my mouth are righteous; none are crooked or perverse.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
[פָּתַל] vb. twist
Niph. I have wrestled (lit. twisted myself) with; the plan of the tortuous; anything tortuous and twisted
Hithp. with the twisted thou dost deal tortuously
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.