Naphtali is a doe let loose, who offers words of beauty.
So Rachel said, “I’ve surely wrestled greatly with my sister — also I’ve won.” So she named him Naphtali.
Naphtali’s sons: Yachzeel, Guni, Yezer and Shillem.
They answered him saying, “If you will be kind to this people and please them and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever.”
A lovely hind, a graceful doe— may her breasts satisfy you always, may you always be captivated by her love.
Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you, by the gazelles and does of the field: Do not arouse or awaken love until it delights.
For even the doe in the field abandons her newborn fawn, because there is no grass.
For Naphtali he said, ‘O Naphtali, satisfied with favor and full of the blessing of Adonai, possess the sea and the south.’
Then Barak summoned Zebulun and Naphtali together to Kedesh, and 10,000 men marched up after him, and Deborah went up with him.
Now she sent and summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, “Hasn’t Adonai, God of Israel, commanded, ‘Go, march to Mount Tabor, and take with you 10,000 men of the sons of Naphtali and of the sons of Zebulun?
Zebulun is a people who jeopardized their lives to death, and Naphtali also, on the heights of the battlefield.