What Does Genesis 46:23 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
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
Dan’s name carries the root sense of judgment into a family line this verse records in a single name.
THE MEANING
This line keeps Dan’s branch visible through Hushim, even as the record compresses the family to one named descendant. Dan’s name carries the sense of judging that Rachel speaks when she says God has judged her.
THE ROOT
דָּן
Dan
GROWS FROM
דין
To judge; to render judgment.
Rachel’s naming sentence in Genesis 30:6 makes this root audible: Dan’s name is tied to her words, “God hath judged me.” Here the genealogy keeps that judgment-bearing name in circulation, carrying the act of naming forward.
ALSO GROWS
din: Judgment; judging.
דִּין
This is the judgment named in Rachel’s explanation of Dan’s name.
dayyan: Judge; adjudicator.
דַּיָּן
This related form names the one who exercises judgment, showing how the root can describe both an act and the person who carries it out.
THE PATTERN
A name can turn one act of naming into a lineage that remains traceable.
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.These are the sons of Dan after their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan after their families.The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.Rachel explicitly ties Dan’s name to the act of being judged: “God hath judged me.” Genesis 46:23 carries that name from its naming moment into the family line.
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