What Does Genesis 25:3 Mean in the King James?
And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.
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 line moves from one act of begetting to whole peoples, showing a family name opening into a shared human future.
THE MEANING
The verse holds ancestry as a movement: Jokshan begets Sheba and Dedan, and Dedan’s line opens into three named peoples. One generation gives rise to a wider human world.
THE ROOT
יָלַד
yalad
GROWS FROM
ילד
To bear, beget, or bring forth.
The birth-root behind “begat” also forms words for a child and for generations. The verse’s motion is more than a list: begetting opens into descendants, then into peoples.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child or offspring.
יֶלֶד
The same root names the child brought forth by the act of begetting.
toledot: Generations or genealogies.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This branch extends birth into the unfolding line of descendants shown in the verse.
THE PATTERN
A line of descent unfolds from named ancestors into peoples and shared human communities.
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.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
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;“Generations” translates תּוֹלְדוֹת (toledot), from the same ילד (y-l-d) root as “begat” here. Genesis 25:3 follows that movement in miniature: birth unfolds into descendants, then into peoples.
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