When in the Bible did God change Jacob's name to Israel?

Answer 1

God didn't change Joseph's name. He changed his father, Jacob's name to Israel. It was symbolic of when Jacob wrestled with God. God called him Israel which means "wrestles with God" and declared that God's new nation, his chose people, would be given that name.

God didn't change Joseph's name. He changed his father, Jacob's name to Israel. It was symbolic of when Jacob wrestled with God. God called him Israel which means "wrestles with God" and declared that God's new nation, his chosen people, would be given that name.

You are wrong Israel has nothing to da with Wrestling Gen 32:28 says Israel means "prince that has power with God and men"

God did not change Joseph's name to Israel but Jacob's name. According to the KJV of The Bible, in Gen 32:24 Jacob wrestled with a man (angel) that he prevailed not against. In Gen 32:24 Jacob refuses to let the man go unless he (Jacob) is blessed. In Gen 32:27 Jacob is asked what his name is. In Gen 32:28 the man who Jacob wrestled with tells him that his name is changed to Israel (Prince with God): for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed (for you have struggled with God).

Answer 2

In Genesis chapter 32, Jacob wrestled all night with a stranger, until it was time for the sun to come up and it was time for the stranger to leave. Jacob refused to let the stranger leave unless he blessed Jacob. The stranger, who was clearly a god, told Jacob that henceforth his name would no longer be Jacob, but instead be Israel, for he had wrestled with God. And Jacob, now Israel, named the place Peniel because he had seen God face to face.

A little later, after meeting his brother Esau, whom he had feared, Jacob went to Shalem, where he bought land and built an altar, calling the place El-elohe-Israel.

Later, Jacob went to Bethel, where he had previously fled from his brother Esau. In an apparently independent account Genesis 35:10-12), because God did not seem to know that Jacob had already been renamed Israel, God appeared to Jacob and told him that his name would no longer be Jacob, but instead be Israel, and that he would father a great nation in fulfilment of the covenant with Abraham and Isaac.

Chapter 35 also involved Jacob twice built stone altars there and naming the place Bethel, just as Abraham on two occasions, and Jacob himself on one previous occasion, had already done. It has long been known that there was a West Semitic deity named Bethel, associated with the veneration of sacred stones, thus this and previous passages point to the city being named after the god Bethel.

The name Israel (Yisra'el) is commonly translated as "Wrestled with God", but it can also mean "Champion (or Prince) of God", "Striver with (or against) God", "Ruler (or Prince) over God", "God Prevails", "God Rules", "God will Rule", or possibly "God Who will Rule".

There is substantial evidence in the Bible itself that Jacob was originally a moon god before the story evolved into one of a human Patriarch, so when he wrestled all night with the god who blessed him and changed his name to Israel, this could have originated as the daily struggle in which the sun god defeats the moon god at dawn, after the moon god had prevailed all night. And not only was Jacob likely to have once been a moon god, but his twin brother and constant rival (even before birth), Esau, was likely to have been the sun god in the earliest version of their story. If so, the 'man' who wrestled with Jacob was another incarnation of his own brother, Esau.

Answer 3

In an ancient tradition inserted into the life story of Jacob at Genesis 32:24ff, he was left alone and wrestled with a man all night until the break of day. Even though his leg was dislocated, Jacob refused to let his opponent go unless he blessed Jacob. If the man who wrestled with Jacob was a god, then Jacob was also a god in the very early tradition behind this account, as demonstrated by the fact that he was such an even match for his opponent. And the 'man' was a god as amply demonstrated - Jacob asked for his blessing, and he had the prerogative of changing Jacob's name. The new name he gave Jacob was Israel (generally assumed to mean "wrestled with God').

Much later, God appeared to Jacob at Bethel and again Jacob was renamed "Israel" (Genesis 35:10-12: "Thy name is Jacob; thy name shall not be called anymore Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name"; and He called his name Israel. And God said unto him, "I am God Almighty [El Shaddai]. Be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins; and the land which I gave unto Abraham and Isaac, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed after thee I will give the land." The use here of the divine name El Shaddai tells us that this passage was written by the Priestly Source, who may have objected to the paganism of the older account, but was ultimately unable to have that passage removed.

Answer 4

God changed Jacob's name to Israel after Jacob wrestled with Him and asked for a blessing in Genesis 32:28.

Answer 5

God made a covenant with Abraham; he changed the names from Abram to Abraham and Sarai to Sarah (Genesis 17)

Answer 6

Genesis 32:24-30 tells us that after Jacob wrestled with an angel all night, he was blessed and his name was changed to Israel.(Hosea 12:2-4)