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Hosea 12:4

New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Yes, he wrestled with the angel and prevailed; He wept and sought His favor. He found Him at Bethel And there He spoke with us,
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us;
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him at Beth-el, and there he spake with us,
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Yes, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him [in] Beth-el, and there he spoke with us;
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Yea, he wrestled with the Angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Yea he strove against a Messenger, and prevailed, he wept, and made supplication unto him,—At Bethel, he found him, and, there, he spake with us;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Yea, he is a prince unto the Messenger, And he overcometh [by] weeping, And he maketh supplication to Him, At Bethel He doth find him, And there He doth speak with us,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— And he prevailed over the angel, and was strengthened: he wept, and made supplication to him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with us.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And had power ouer the Angel, and preuailed: he wept and praied vnto him: he founde him in Beth-el, and there he spake with vs.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Yea, he had power ouer the Angel and preuailed: hee wept and made supplication vnto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spake with vs.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Yea, he prevailed over the angel, he made supplication to him; he found him in Beth-el, and there he spoke with him.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And he prevailed with the angel and was strong: they wept, and intreated me: they found me in the house of On, and there [a word] was spoken to them.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him [in] Beth El, and there he spake with us;

Strong's Numbers & Hebrew NamesHebrew Old TestamentColor-Code/Key Word Studies
Yea, he had power y7786
[7786] Standard
שׂוּר
suwr
{soor}
A primitive root; properly to vanquish; by implication to rule (causatively crown).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
x8280
(8280) Complement
שָׂרָה
sarah
{saw-raw'}
A primitive root; to prevail.
over x413
(0413) Complement
אֵל
'el
{ale}
(Used only in the shortened constructive form (the second form)); a primitive particle, properly denoting motion towards, but occasionally used of a quiescent position, that is, near, with or among; often in general, to.
the angel, 4397
{4397} Prime
מַלְאָךְ
mal'ak
{mal-awk'}
From an unused root meaning to despatch as a deputy; a messenger; specifically of God, that is, an angel (also a prophet, priest or teacher).
and prevailed: 3201
{3201} Prime
יָכֹל
yakol
{yaw-kole'}
A primitive root; to be able, literally (can, could) or morally (may, might).
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
he wept, 1058
{1058} Prime
בָּכָה
bakah
{baw-kaw'}
A primitive root; to weep; generally to bemoan.
z8804
<8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Perfect (See H8816)
Count - 12562
and made supplication 2603
{2603} Prime
חָנַן
chanan
{khaw-nan'}
A primitive root (compare H2583); properly to bend or stoop in kindness to an inferior; to favor, bestow; causatively to implore (that is, move to favor by petition).
z8691
<8691> Grammar
Stem - Hithpael (See H8819)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 533
unto him: he found 4672
{4672} Prime
מָצָא
matsa'
{maw-tsaw'}
A primitive root; properly to come forth to, that is, appear or exist; transitively to attain, that is, find or acquire; figuratively to occur, meet or be present.
z8799
<8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 19885
him [in] Bêŧ ´Ël בֵּית־אֵל, 1008
{1008} Prime
בֵּית־אֵל
Beyth-'El
{bayth-ale'}
From H1004 and H0410; house of God; Beth-El, a place in Palestine.
and there x8033
(8033) Complement
שָׁם
sham
{shawm}
A primitive particle (rather from the relative H0834); there (transfered to time) then; often thither, or thence.
he spake 1696
{1696} Prime
דִּבֵּר
dabar
{daw-bar'}
A primitive root; perhaps properly to arrange; but used figuratively (of words) to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue.
z8762
<8762> Grammar
Stem - Piel (See H8840)
Mood - Imperfect (See H8811)
Count - 2447
with x5973
(5973) Complement
עִם
`im
{eem}
From H6004; adverb or preposition, with (that is, in conjunction with), in varied applications; specifically equally with; often with prepositional prefix (and then usually unrepresented in English).
us;
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary

Hosea 12:4

_ _ the angel — the uncreated Angel of the Covenant, as God the Son appears in the Old Testament (Malachi 3:1).

_ _ made supplicationGenesis 32:26 : “I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.”

_ _ he found him — The angel found Jacob, when he was fleeing from Esau into Syria: the Lord appearing to him “in Beth-el” (Genesis 28:11-19; Genesis 35:1). What a sad contrast, that in this same Beth-el now Israel worships the golden calves!

_ _ there he spake with us — “with us,” as being in the loins of our progenitor Jacob (compare Psalms 66:6, “They ... we;Hebrews 7:9, Hebrews 7:10). What God there spoke to Jacob appertains to us. God’s promises to him belong to all his posterity who follow in the steps of his prayerful faith.

Matthew Henry's Commentary

See commentary on Hosea 12:1-6.

John Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Hosea 12:4

The angel — Called Hosea 12:3, God; and Hosea 12:5, Jehovah, Lord of hosts. He was no created angel, but the Messiah; eternal God by nature and essence, angel by office, and voluntary undertaking. He wept — He prayed with tears from a sense of his own unworthiness, and with earnestness for the mercy he desired. He — God. Him — Jacob full of weariness, fears, and solicitude on his journey to Laban. He — God. With us — Being then in Jacob's loins.

Geneva Bible Translation Notes

Hosea 12:4

Yea, he had (e) power over the angel, and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: (f) he found him [in] Bethel, and there he spake with us;

(e) Read (Genesis 32:24-32).

(f) God found Jacob as he lay sleeping in Bethel (Genesis 28:12), and spoke with him there in such a way that the fruit of that speech appertained to the whole body of the people, of which we are.

Cross-Reference Topical ResearchStrong's Concordance
angel:

Genesis 32:29 And Jacob asked [him], and said, Tell [me], I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore [is] it [that] thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Genesis 48:15 And he blessed Joseph, and said, God, before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk, the God which fed me all my life long unto this day,
Exodus 3:2-5 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed. ... And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy ground.
Isaiah 63:9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
Malachi 3:1 Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
Acts 7:30-35 And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush. ... This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send [to be] a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

made:

Genesis 32:9-12 And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee: ... And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.
Hebrews 5:7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

found:

Genesis 28:11-19 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put [them for] his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. ... And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the first.
Genesis 35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padanaram, and blessed him.

spake:

Psalms 66:6 He turned the sea into dry [land]: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Hebrews 6:13-18 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, ... That by two immutable things, in which [it was] impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:
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Chain-Reference Bible SearchCross References with Concordance

Gn 28:11; 32:9, 29; 35:9; 48:15. Ex 3:2. Ps 66:6. Is 63:9. Mal 3:1. Ac 7:30. 1Th 4:17. He 5:7; 6:13.

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