Genesis Chapter 32 verse 24 Holy Bible
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
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Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn.
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And Jacob remained alone; and a man wrestled with him until the rising of the dawn.
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And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
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And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him, until the breaking of the day.
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Jacob was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.
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And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn;
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Genesis 32 : 24 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - And Jacob was left alone (probably on the north bank of the Jabbok; but vide on ver. 23); and there wrestled - thus assaulting in his strong point one who had been a wrestler or heel-catcher from his youth (Murphy). The old word נֶךאבַק, niph. of אָבַק, unused, a dehorn, from חָבַק, dust, because in wrestling the dust is raised (Aben Ezra, Gesenius), or a weakened form of חָבַק, to wind round, to embrace (Furst), obviously contains an allusion to the Jabbok (vide on ver. 22) - a man - called an angel by Hosea (Genesis 12:4), and God by Jacob (ver. 30); but vide infra - with him until the breaking of the day - literally, the ascending of the morning.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) There wrestled.--This verb, abak, occurs only here, and without doubt it was chosen because of its resemblance to the name Jabbok. Its probable derivation is from a word signifying dust, because wrestlers were quickly involved in a cloud of dust, or because, as was the custom in Greece, they rubbed their bodies with it.A man.--Such he seemed to be to Jacob; but Hosea (Genesis 12:4) calls him an angel; and, in Genesis 32:30, Jacob recognises in him a manifestation of the Deity, as Hagar had done before, when an angel appeared to her (Genesis 16:13). There is no warrant for regarding the angel as an incarnation of Deity, any more than in the case of Manoah (Judges 13:22); but it was a manifestation of God mediately by His messenger, and was one of the many signs indicative of a more complete manifestation by the coming of the Word in the flesh. The opposite idea of many modern commentators, that the narrative is an allegory, is contradicted by the attendant circumstances, especially by the change of Jacob's name, and his subsequent lameness, to which national testimony was borne by the customs of the Jews.
