What Does Genesis 30:19 Mean in the King James?

And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.

Genesis 30:19 · 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

The root behind “bare” also names the generations that follow, so one birth already contains the beginning of a continuing line.

THE MEANING

Every birth opens as one person’s arrival and as a continuation of a line already underway. Leah’s sixth son is both a distinct child and the next link in that family story.

THE ROOT

וַתֵּלֶד

vatteled

GROWS FROM

ילד

To bear, beget, bring forth

“bare” in this verse is vatteled. The verb for Leah’s act of bearing grows from ⁨ילד⁩ (yalad, to bear or beget), and the same root appears in ⁨תּוֹלְדוֹת⁩ (toledot, generations). English presents one birth; the Hebrew word family carries the movement from a child being born into the generations that continue.

ALSO GROWS

yeled: Child or young person

יֶלֶד

The child is the one brought forth: the root names both the act of bearing and the life that arrives.

toledot: Generations, lineage

תּוֹלְדוֹת

This branch shows how a birth extends beyond one arrival into the continuing family line.

THE PATTERN

A life formed in hiddenness becomes visible in birth, extending a line beyond its first moment.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Genesis 4:1 · KJVConception and birth bring a new person into the world and begin the next part of a family line.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6 · KJVThe birth of one child opens into a future that reaches beyond the child’s first moment.

A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.

John 16:21 · KJVThe passage from hidden life to visible birth changes what the world can hold.

THE THREAD

And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

Genesis 30:20 · KJV

The next verse repeats ⁨ילד⁩ (yalad, to bear or beget) in Leah’s words, “I have born him six sons.” She connects the sixth birth with her hope that her husband will dwell with her, showing how the arrival reaches into the desire for belonging.

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