What Does Genesis 10:14 Mean in the King James?
And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim.
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
The verse gives the Philistines an origin before it gives them a label: they are a people who came out from another people.
THE MEANING
These names remain visible as branches: peoples emerge from earlier families and movements. No people appears from nowhere; each name carries a route of becoming beneath the label. The verse keeps that origin inside the identity.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that a people is self-originating and sealed off from every other line dissolves here: the Philistines are explicitly said to come out from another people.
THE ROOT
יָצְאוּ
yāṣəʾū
GROWS FROM
יצא
To go out, come forth, or emerge.
The Hebrew word carries the movement of going out from a source: the Philistines emerge from a prior people. English “came” can sound like simple arrival, while the root holds the departure and origin within the same motion.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or come forth.
יָצָא
This is the root’s basic movement, the emergence named in the verse.
hotsi: To bring out or lead forth.
הוֹצִיא
This causative form shows how the same root can describe a people being brought out of a place.
motsa: A going forth, departure, or origin.
מוֹצָא
This branch makes explicit the link between coming out and the source from which a people emerges.
THE PATTERN
Peoples emerge through lineages and movement, while their identities retain traces of shared beginnings.
These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;THE THREAD
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.Genesis uses the root יצא (yatsa, to go out or come forth) for the Philistines’ emergence from a lineage; Exodus uses its causative form for Israel being brought out of Egypt, the house of bondage. The same root holds origin and release together as movements out from a source.
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