(01-28-2019, 07:32 PM)Channalee Wrote: 10. Yisroel (2%): Hebrew, meaning "nobly contended with God and prevailed." The name that the Biblical Yaakov took for himself after he wrestled with an angel of God.
Actually, he was assigned the name, and both the name and the nature of the wrestler are the subject of a fair amount of debate (probably better suited to the Hebrew Language Forum).
To be is to stand for. - Abraham Joshua Heschel