STRONGS G3508:
Νεφθαλείμ (and (so
T editions 2, 7,
WH in
Revelation 7:6)
Νεφθαλίμ; see
WH's Appendix, p. 155, and under the word Iota),
ὁ (
נַפְתָּלִי, i. e. 'my wrestling' (cf.
Genesis 30:8), or according to what seems to be a more correct interpretation 'my craftiness' (cf.
Josephus, Antiquities 1, 19, 8;
Test xii. Patr. test. Neph. § 1), from
פָּתַל unused in Kal; cf. Rüetschi in
Herzog x., p. 200f),
Naphtali, the sixth son of the patriarch Jacob, by Bilhah, Rachel's maid:
Revelation 7:6; by metonymy, his posterity, the tribe of Naphtali,
Matthew 4:13,
15.
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