What Does Genesis 19:36 Mean in the King James?
Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.
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
What was hidden in the night is now legible in both bodies: the Hebrew says they conceived.
THE MEANING
Both daughters of Lot are pregnant by their father. The sentence holds the relationship and the bodily result together, leaving neither one concealed.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a hidden act leaves no visible consequence is undone: the verse names both pregnancies plainly.
THE ROOT
וַתַּהֲרֶיןָ
vattaharenah
GROWS FROM
הרה
h-r-h
To conceive; to be pregnant.
The Hebrew verb names the act of conceiving, while “with child” presents the resulting state. The related noun הֵרָיוֹן (herayon, “conception/pregnancy”) carries the same root into a word for pregnancy itself.
ALSO GROWS
vattahar: She conceived.
וַתַּהַר
Genesis 4:1 uses the same root for Eve’s conception, making the bodily event explicit in both passages.
herayon: Conception or pregnancy.
הֵרָיוֹן
Hosea 9:11 places conception beside the womb and birth, keeping the stages of pregnancy in view.
THE PATTERN
Conception turns an unseen beginning into a bodily fact.
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.THE THREAD
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.Genesis uses the same root in וַתַּהַר (vattahar, “and she conceived”), while the verse here uses its feminine plural form for both daughters. The verb names conception plainly; the surrounding words name the relationships in each scene.
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