What Does Genesis 36:14 Mean in the King James?
And these were the sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon, Esau’s wife: and she bare to Esau Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah.
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 Hebrew word for “bare” shares its root with “generations,” so one birth already contains the unfolding family line.
THE MEANING
Here, a life comes into view through relationships reaching backward and forward: Aholibamah is named through her mother and grandmother, then through the three sons she bears. Her name gathers “tent” and “high place” into a single image, while “bare” opens into the language of generations.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a person begins as a self-contained individual is unsettled here: each person is named through relationships that precede and follow them.
THE ROOT
וַתֵּלֶד
vatteled
GROWS FROM
ילד
To bear, bring forth, or beget.
English “bare” can sound like one completed act; the Hebrew root ילד also gives the word for “generations,” תּוֹלְדוֹת (toledot). Bearing and the family line that unfolds from it belong to the same word-family, so these three sons are the next branching of the lineage named around Aholibamah.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child
יֶלֶד
The child is the life brought forth by the act named in this verse.
toledot: Generations; family line
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This branch links one birth to the continuing lineage it enters.
THE PATTERN
A life is named within a lineage, and its relationships carry that life forward.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.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,” תּוֹלְדוֹת (toledot), comes from the same ילד root as “she bare” in this verse. Hebrew links a single birth with the lineage it enters; the names here are that shared root unfolding.
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