Jacob's son living at the time of the Patriarchs
Naphtali
Jacob’s sixth son, the second born to Rachel’s servant Bilhah. Rachel named him Naphtali, “my wrestling,” saying, “I have wrestled with my sister with mighty wrestlings, and have prevailed” (Genesis 30:7–8). Jacob’s blessing calls him “a doe set free” (Genesis 49:21). His tribe’s land lay around the Sea of Galilee, and Matthew sees Jesus’ move to Capernaum, in the land of Zebulun and Naphtali, as the fulfillment of Isaiah’s word about Galilee (Matthew 4:13–16).
Family
- Father
- Jacob
- Mother
- Bilhah
- Children
- Jahzeel, Guni, Jezer, Shillem