What Does Genesis 36:5 Mean in the King James?

And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 36:5 · KJV

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THE KEY

The word for bearing a child also gives Hebrew its word for generations: each birth opens into a continuing line.

THE MEANING

Your life is not an isolated beginning: it arrives through others, within particular relationships and places. This verse holds each son’s distinct name together with their shared origin and birthplace.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the idea that a person is a self-contained beginning; each named life enters through another and belongs to a wider line.

THE ROOT

יָלְדָה

yaldah

GROWS FROM

ילד

To bear, beget, or bring forth.

“bare” in this verse is yaldah. The verb for bearing is connected to the word for a child and to the word for generations. So the verse’s birth is also the beginning of a continuing line: three named lives emerge from one act of bearing.

ALSO GROWS

yeled: Child

יֶלֶד

The child is held within the same root as the act of bearing.

toledot: Generations, or an account of what is begotten

תּוֹלְדוֹת

This branch carries birth outward into the unfolding line of descendants.

THE PATTERN

Birth is presented as a link in a named line of belonging.

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:3 · KJVA birth continues a line through a named child who bears a connection to the one before him.

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Psalm 127:3 · KJVChildren are held within a larger belonging, not as lives detached from their source.

Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

Matthew 1:2 · KJVThe repeated names make the continuity of generations visible, one life linked to another.

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 4:1 · KJV

Both verses use ⁨ילד⁩ (yalad, to bear or beget), the root beneath “bare.” Genesis 4 names one birth; here that same birth-root opens into three named sons and their shared line.

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