<P> In the Genesis narrative, Jacob spent the night alone on a riverside during his journey back to Canaan . He encounters a "man" who proceeds to wrestle with him until daybreak . In the end, Jacob is given the name "Israel" and blessed, while the "man" refuses to give his own name . Jacob then names the place where they wrestled Penuel (פְּנוּאֵל "face of God" or "facing God"). </P> <P> The Masoretic text reads as follows: </P> <P> The same night he arose and took his two wives, his two female servants, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok . He took them and sent them across the stream, and everything else that he had . And Jacob was left alone . And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day . When the man saw that he did not prevail against Jacob, he touched his hip socket, and Jacob's hip was put out of joint as he wrestled with him . Then he said, "Let me go, for the day has broken ." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you bless me ." And he said to him, "What is your name?" And he said, "Jacob ." Then he said, "Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, for you have striven with God and with men, and have prevailed ." Then Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name ." But he said, "Why is it that you ask my name?" And there he blessed him . So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, "For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered ." The sun rose upon him as he passed Penuel, limping because of his hip . Therefore to this day the people of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket, because he touched the socket of Jacob's hip on the sinew of the thigh . </P> <P> The account contains several plays on the meaning of Hebrew names--Peniel (or Peniel), Israel--as well as similarity to the root of Jacob's name (which sounds like the Hebrew for "heel") and its compound . The limping of Jacob (Yaʿaqob), may mirror the name of the river, Jabbok (Yabbok יַבֹּק sounds like "crooked" river), and Nahmanides (Deut. 2: 10 of Jeshurun) gives the etymology "one who walks crookedly" for the name Jacob . </P>

Who wrestled with god and broke his hip