What Does Genesis 13:5 Mean in the King James?

And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

Genesis 13:5 · KJV

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

Lot walks the same road as Abram while carrying a household of his own.

THE MEANING

The verse speaks of a path traveled with companions and carried by animals and shelter. Lot goes alongside Abram, while the flocks, herds, and tents name the material life moving with him. Their journey is shared, while Lot’s household is named in its own right.

THE ROOT

הֹלֵךְ

holekh

GROWS FROM

הלך

to walk or go

The phrase translated “went with” comes from the root for walking and going: Lot is pictured as moving alongside Abram. The same root can describe a way of life, so this shared journey carries the sense of a shared path, even as the verse names Lot’s own household possessions.

ALSO GROWS

holekh: going; walking

הֹלֵךְ

This is the form describing Lot as he goes alongside Abram.

hithallekh: to walk about; to walk

הִתְהַלֵּךְ

The same root describes Enoch walking with God, making companionship visible as shared movement.

THE PATTERN

A household’s journey takes shape through the provisions and dwelling that travel with it.

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

Genesis 13:6 · KJVThe abundance carried by both households shapes whether they can continue dwelling together.

For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.

Genesis 26:14 · KJVFlocks and herds again make a household’s material abundance visible.

By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:

Hebrews 11:9 · KJVPortable dwellings mark a household living on a journey.

THE THREAD

And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

Genesis 5:24 · KJV

“Walked” comes from the same root as “went” in the verse about Lot. In both, walking with someone pictures companionship as movement along a shared path.

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