What Does Genesis 36:40 Mean in the King James?
And these are the names of the dukes that came of Esau, according to their families, after their places, by their names; duke Timnah, duke Alvah, duke Jetheth,
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
A name here is nature with an address: each chief is named within a family and the place where that people stands.
THE MEANING
The verse presents identity through relationship: each name is held within a family and a place. A name carries a nature, and the place marks where that nature stands among its people. Leadership, too, appears embedded in those ties.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie this undoes is that a name is only a label, detached from the family and place that give it shape.
THE ROOT
לִמְקֹמֹתָם
li-meqomotam
GROWS FROM
קום
To stand, rise, or be established.
The word for “places” is built from קום (qum, stand or rise): a מָקוֹם (maqom, place) is where something stands or is established. The phrase “by their names” is בִּשְׁמֹתָם (bi-shemotam, by their names), with שֵׁם (shem, name as nature) at its center, so each nature is situated within a family and a ground.
ALSO GROWS
qum: Stand or rise.
קוּם
The root gives “place” the sense of where something stands.
maqom: Place or site.
מָקוֹם
This is the singular form behind the verse’s “places,” linking each name to where its people are established.
heqim: Raise, set up, or establish.
הֵקִים
This branch shows the same root’s movement from standing to being established.
THE PATTERN
A people’s identity is carried in the names, families, and places that hold it.
By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.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
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.The same word מָקוֹם (maqom, place), from קום (qum, stand or rise), appears in both verses. Here place marks where a lineage stands; in Genesis 28:16, it becomes where presence is perceived, opening “place” into more than geography.
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