The 12 tribes of Israel, named after Jacob's sons ... and is blessed with a new name: Israel (meaning "he struggles with God" ...

Jacob, son of Isaac, son of Abraham, was the father of the twelve tribes of Israel. In the Bible, we are told that a divine being he wrestled with changed Jacob’s name. In Genesis 32:28 ...

Jacob was renamed Israel when God appeared to him when he was leaving Padn-Aram and blessed him. Jacob produced twelve sons, each of whom became the father of one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

These are among the thousands of words and names of places ... the last king of Israel, Hoshea, who died around the same time, at the time of the Assyrian exile of the ten tribes from Israel.