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Genesis 32:24

וַ יִּוָּתֵר יַעֲקֹב לְ בַדֹּו וַ יֵּאָבֵק אִישׁ עִמֹּו עַד עֲלֹות הַ שָּׁחַר

And Heel is remaining over to his separation, and a man is dusting [yabbeq]1032 with him until the ascending of the Daybreak.1033


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See Gen. 19:15

Jacob’s Dire Straight (Tsarah)

This piece has been thought of as Jacob’s Straight/Distress mentioned by the prophet Jeremiah. It makes more sense that it is the wrestling between Jacob and Esau in the womb. The Hebrew word is tsarah which according to Strong’s #6869 means “transitively, a female rival” according to its usage in 1 Sam. 1:6 of a rival wife. It may not be coincidental that it sounds very much like Sarah. It refers to a tight, distressing, dual straight—reminiscent of the symbolic meaning of Mitzrayyim (Egypt). Here’s what he said literally,

Hoy! For great is the Hot-one of Himself; from nothing is like him. And a time of tsarah [tight-straight] she is to Heel. And from out of her he is being rescued.” Jeremiah 30:7 literal