What Does Exodus 6:18 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
This verse sets Kohath’s measured years beside the four named sons who carry his lineage forward.
THE MEANING
Your life is more than its count of years; it also touches the names and bonds that continue through it. The verse holds Kohath’s 133 years beside his four sons, joining a lifespan with what follows from it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that a life is only its personal span; here, the years and the people bound to them appear together.
THE ROOT
חַיֵּי
chayyei
GROWS FROM
חיה
to live, to be alive
The Hebrew phrase for “the life of Kohath” comes from the same root as the verb “to live.” His 133 years are presented as a span of living, while the named sons show that his life is also situated within a continuing lineage.
ALSO GROWS
chayah: to live, be alive
חָיָה
The verb beneath “life” makes the lifespan a form of living, not merely a number.
chayyim: life
חַיִּים
This related form appears in the next verse’s account of Levi’s life, carrying the same root through the genealogy.
THE PATTERN
A life extends through the names, relationships, and teachings carried into the next generation.
And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee.For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.THE THREAD
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:“Life” and “may live” both grow from חיה, the same root beneath “life” in this verse. Deuteronomy brings the root into a horizon shared with one’s descendants, echoing the way Kohath’s years appear beside the sons named after him.
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