What Does Genesis 11:15 Mean in the King James?
And Salah lived after he begat Eber four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.
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
Eber’s birth is a beginning inside a longer life of bringing forth.
THE MEANING
Your life is larger than one decisive beginning: the verse places Eber’s birth inside a span that continues for 403 years, with more sons and daughters. A generation opens into the next, and the first named child does not contain all that follows.
THE ROOT
וַיּוֹלֶד
wayyoled
GROWS FROM
ילד
To bear, give birth, or beget.
The root behind “begat” also forms יֶלֶד (yeled, child) and תּוֹלְדוֹת (toledot, generations or descendants). The act, its offspring, and the genealogy grow from the same birth-root.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child.
יֶלֶד
The child is held in the same root as the act of begetting.
toledot: Generations or descendants.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
The word for a family’s generations grows from the root of birth, tying genealogy to what is brought forth.
שֶׁלַח
Shelach
GROWS FROM
שלח
To send, send forth, or release.
“Salah” in this verse is Shelach. Shelah’s name shares the consonants of שָׁלַח (shalach, send or release), giving it an echo of sending forth. In this verse, that echo sits beside a life whose line continues through the generations.
ALSO GROWS
shilleaḥ: Send away or release.
שִׁלֵּחַ
The branch makes the name’s echo of sending forth audible.
shaluach: Sent or one who is sent.
שָׁלוּחַ
Its sense of being sent forward resonates with the line continuing beyond one named child.
THE PATTERN
Life and teaching continue as one generation carries something forward to the next.
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.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
And the days of Adam after he had begotten Seth were eight hundred years: and he begat sons and daughters:Both lines use ילד (yalad, beget or bear) to place years after a named child beside the birth of sons and daughters. The repeated wording shows the first named child as one beginning within a longer unfolding.
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