What Does Genesis 11:10 Mean in the King James?
These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
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
Shem (שֵׁם, shem, “name”) is carried into תּוֹלְדֹת (toledot, “begettings”), turning a name into a living line.
THE MEANING
A name’s nature continues in what is brought forth from it. The verse holds a birth after the flood, so continuation remains possible after a rupture that feels final.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a devastating ending leaves no future: this verse places a birth after the flood.
THE ROOT
תּוֹלְדֹת
toledot
GROWS FROM
י־ל־ד
y-l-d
To bear, beget, bring forth.
“Generations” and “begat” arise from the same seed: bringing forth. English separates the lineage from the act of birth, while the Hebrew binds them together, the line is what keeps being brought forth.
ALSO GROWS
yalad: The verb for bearing or begetting.
יָלַד
The verse uses this seed in “begat,” linking the generations to the act that brings them forth.
yeled: A child, one who has been brought forth.
יֶלֶד
A child is held inside the word-family of generations; Arphaxad is the next life in the line.
THE PATTERN
A name’s nature continues in what is brought forth from it.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;The same word translated “generations” appears there, formed from the birth-root that also gives this verse its “begat.” Genesis 5:1 ties the line to God’s likeness, so the shared birth-language carries creation forward through descendants.
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