The Transformation of the Name From Jacob to Israel

said thy name shall no more be called Jacob so the supplantor right the over thrower with that kind of intonation of or implication of crookedness but israel which means he who wrestles or strives successfully with god for as a prince has thou power with god and with men and has prevailed. "I don't know exactly what to make of it there's obviously a symbolic level of meaning which is that that is what human beings do in some sense"