sa.rah denotes striving, shown in a struggle with an angel and echoed in a prior encounter involving Jacob.

The two attestations show striving in connection with Jacob: Hosea 12:4 explicitly places it in a struggle with an angel, while Genesis 32:29 preserves the second-person form within the encounter where Jacob asks for a name and receives a blessing.

1. Striving in Jacob's encounter · dominant

   In Hosea 12:4, the Qal perfect third masculine singular form occurs in the clause where he struggles with an angel, weeps, and entreats him; the APB renders the clause "He strove with the angel and prevailed." Genesis 32:29 has the Qal perfect second masculine singular form in the encounter where Jacob asks for a name and is blessed, though the APB does not explicitly render this form in its translation.

   Hosea 12:4Genesis 32:29

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly renders the clause in Hosea 12:4 as "He strove with the angel and prevailed." In Genesis 32:29, its translation presents the exchange about a name and the blessing, without an identifiable English rendering for the form.