What Does Job 1:2 Mean?
And there were born to him seven sons and three daughters.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters.THE KEY
The Hebrew root behind “born” also gives “generations,” holding each child’s arrival and the family line’s continuation in the same seed.
THE MEANING
The verse meets you in the fact that a life arrives through others and enters a web of kinship. Job’s seven sons and three daughters are named simply as born to him; their futures remain unopened here.
THE ROOT
וַיִּוָּלְדוּ
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GROWS FROM
ילד
to bear, bring forth, beget
“were born” in this verse is vayyivvaledu. Hebrew ילד (yalad, “bear or beget”) gives both the act of birth and תּוֹלְדוֹת (toledot, “generations”). English can make birth sound like a finished event; the shared root keeps each child’s arrival joined to the lineage it opens.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: child, boy
יֶלֶד
This related word names the life brought forth, making the root’s action visible in the child.
toledot: generations, descendants
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This branch connects birth to the line that continues through those brought forth.
THE PATTERN
Life is brought forth through birth, and each arrival participates in the continuity of generations.
And the days of Adam after he brought forth Seth were eight hundred years, and he brought forth sons and daughters.Look, children are the LORD's portion; and the fruit of the womb is a wage.A woman, when she brings forth, has pain, because her hour has come. But when she has borne the child, she no longer remembers the pressure, for the joy that a human has been brought forth into the world.THE THREAD
And the days of Adam after he brought forth Seth were eight hundred years, and he brought forth sons and daughters.Genesis uses ילד (yalad, “bear or beget”), the same root rendered “born” here. Together, the verses show children being brought forth and the family line continuing through them.
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