And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan-aram, and blessed him. And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name: and he called his name Israel. And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: 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 Abraham and Isaac, to thee I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give the land. And God went up from him in the place where he talked with him. And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with him, Beth-el. And they journeyed from Beth-el; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also. And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin. And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem. And Jacob set a pillar upon her grave: that is the pillar of Rachel's grave unto this day.-Genesis 35:9-20***Isaac was the only child born to Abraham (Abram the Hebrew) and Sarah (Sarai). The Lord God changed Abraham and Sarah's birth names, Abram and Sarai, when Abraham was 99 years old and Sarah was 89. Isaac was born when Abraham was 100 years old and Sarah was 90, and Isaac was named according to the words that the Lord God spoke to Abraham. When Isaac was 40 years old, he married Rebekah, Abraham and Sarah's grandniece. When Isaac was 60 years old, fraternal twin sons Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) were born to Isaac and Rebekah. Esau, the firstborn son, was named from a variation of the Hebrew word for "red," and Jacob was named for the Hebrew word for "trickster/heel catcher/supplanter." However, since Esau loved red stew, they began calling him Edom, from another variation of the Hebrew word for "red." When Jacob was grown and had wrestled and overcame his struggles with man and the Lord God, Jacob was renamed "Israel," possibly meaning "prince with God" and "fights or persists with God." Sometime thereafter, a 2nd and last son was born to Jacob and his 2nd wife Rachel. As Rachel was dying in an area near Bethlehem, Rachel named the son Ben-Oni, meaning "son of my sorrow/son of my pain/son of my misfortune." Jacob renamed the son Benjamin, meaning "son of the right hand/son of good fortune/son of the south." Judah was the 4th son born to Jacob and his 1st wife Leah. Over 1,900 years after Judah was born, Jesus the Christ, the Son of God, was born. Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit in the womb of Mary, a virgin, and Jesus was born in Bethlehem into the tribe of Judah to Mary and her husband Joseph when Mary was a virgin.-Genesis 11:26-35:29, 1 Chronicles 1:1-34, 2:1-17, 3:1-24, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts 1:1-26
Reference Information:
Benjamin = Binyamin = ben + yamin/yamiyn = son of the right hand
Ben-oni = owni ben = ben + aven = son of my sorrow
Israel = Yisrael = sara + el = strives with God, prince with God
Jacob = Yaaqob = aqeb/aqab = heel catcher, supplanter
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