naftali · Naphtali

What it means

naftali (נַפְתָּלִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Naphtali”.

A son of Jacob and Bilhah; also the tribe that came from him and its land. The name sounds like "wrestle".

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×11
• Deuteronomy×4
• Joshua×6
• Judges×7
• 1 Kings×3
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×7
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 30:8

  Rachel said, “With wrestlings of Elohim I have wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed.” So she called his name Naphtali.

• Genesis 35:25

  The sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s slave woman: Dan and Naphtali.

• Genesis 46:24

  The sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, and Shillem.

• Genesis 49:21

  Naphtali is a doe let loose, who gives beautiful words.

• Exodus 1:4

  Dan and Naphtali, Gad and Asher.

• Numbers 1:15

  from Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan.”

• Numbers 1:42

  The sons of Naphtali, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, everyone who went out to the army:

• Numbers 1:43

  those of them counted from the tribe of Naphtali were fifty-three thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 2:29

  And the tribe of Naphtali; and the chief of the sons of Naphtali is Ahira son of Enan,

• Numbers 7:78

  On the twelfth day, the chief of the sons of Naphtali, Ahira son of Enan:

• Numbers 10:27

  And over the army of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali was Ahira son of Enan.

• Numbers 13:14

  of the tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi son of Vophsi;

• Numbers 26:48

  The sons of Naphtali by their families: of Jahzeel, the family of the Jahzeelites; of Guni, the family of the Gunites;

• Numbers 26:50

  These are the families of Naphtali by their families, and those of them counted were forty-five thousand four hundred.

• Numbers 34:28

  of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, a chief, Pedahel son of Ammihud.”

• Deuteronomy 27:13

  And these shall stand for the curse on Mount Ebal: Reuben, Gad, and Asher and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

• Deuteronomy 33:23

  And of Naphtali he said, “Naphtali, satisfied with favor and full of the blessing of YHWH, take possession of the sea and the south.”

• Deuteronomy 34:2

  and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,

• Joshua 19:32

  For the sons of Naphtali the sixth lot came out, for the sons of Naphtali according to their families.

• Joshua 19:39

  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali according to their families: the cities with their villages.

• Joshua 20:7

  So they consecrated Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.

• Joshua 21:6

  And the sons of Gershon received by lot thirteen cities from the families of the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan.

• Joshua 21:32

  And from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasturelands, and Hammoth-dor with its pasturelands, and Kartan with its pasturelands —three cities.

• Judges 1:33

  Naphtali did not dispossess the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh or the inhabitants of Beth-anath, but lived among the Canaanite, the inhabitants of the land; and the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath became forced labor for them.

• Judges 4:6

  She sent and called Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh of Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, commanded, ‘Go, march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun?

• Judges 4:10

  Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh, and there went up following him ten thousand men, and Deborah went up with him.

• Judges 5:18

  Zebulun is a people that exposed its life to death, and Naphtali, on the heights of the field.

• Judges 6:35

  He sent messengers throughout all Manasseh, and it too was summoned after him; and he sent messengers to Asher, to Zebulun, and to Naphtali, and they came up to meet them.

• Judges 7:23

  The men of Israel were summoned from Naphtali, from Asher, and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.

• 1 Kings 4:15

  Ahimaaz, in Naphtali; he also took Basemath daughter of Solomon as a wife;

• 1 Kings 7:14

  He was the son of a widow from the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze; and he was filled with wisdom and understanding and knowledge to do every work in bronze. And he came to King Solomon and did all his work.

• 1 Kings 15:20

  Ben-hadad listened to King Asa, and sent the commanders of the troops that he had against the cities of Israel, and struck Ijon and Dan and Abel-beth-maacah and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

• 2 Kings 15:29

  In the days of Pekah king of Israel Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and he carried them into exile to Assyria.

• 1 Chronicles 2:2

  Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

• 1 Chronicles 6:62

  And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, from the tribe of Issachar, from the tribe of Asher, from the tribe of Naphtali, and from the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, fell thirteen cities.

• 1 Chronicles 6:76

  and from the tribe of Naphtali: Kedesh in Galilee with its pasturelands, Hammon with its pasturelands, and Kiriathaim with its pasturelands.

• 1 Chronicles 7:13

  The sons of Naphtali: Jahziel, Guni, Jezer, and Shallum, the sons of Bilhah.

• 1 Chronicles 12:34

  and of Naphtali, a thousand commanders, and with them, with shield and spear, thirty-seven thousand;

• 1 Chronicles 12:40

  And also those near to them, as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, were bringing bread on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on cattle: food of flour, cakes of figs and cakes of raisins, and wine and oil, and cattle and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.

• 1 Chronicles 27:19

  for Zebulun, Ishmaiah son of Obadiah; for Naphtali, Jerimoth son of Azriel;

And 11 more times.