KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense or past-participial form of wrestle (to struggle or contend against an opponent, literally or figuratively).
Definition sources
First occurrence: Genesis 30:8
Complete exact-word concordance
And Rachel said, With great wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and I have prevailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
And Rachel saide, With great wrastlings haue I wrastled with my sister, and I haue preuailed: and she called his name Naphtali.
1611 marginal noteHeb. wrastlings of God.
1611 marginal noteThat is, My wrastling.
1611 marginal noteCalled Matt. 4.13. Nephthalim.
¶ And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
¶ And Iacob was left alone: and there wrestled a man with him, vntill the breaking of the day.
1611 marginal noteHebr. Ascending of the morning.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And when he saw, that he preuailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh: and the hollow of Iacobs thigh was out of ioynt, as hee wrestled with him.
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