What Does Genesis 5:19 Mean in the King James?
And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
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 root behind “begat” also gives the word for generations, so Jared’s long life appears as a line that keeps unfolding.
THE MEANING
Jared’s life continues for eight hundred years after Enoch is born, and that span brings further sons and daughters. The verse presents life as a continuing line of generation: one birth arrives, and life keeps taking form in others.
THE ROOT
הוֹלִידוֹ
holido
GROWS FROM
ילד
To bear, beget, or bring forth.
The same root that names begetting also forms the word for generations. “Begat” therefore opens onto a continuing lineage, not only a single birth.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child
יֶלֶד
The child is what this root brings forth; Enoch’s birth begins the line that continues in Jared’s sons and daughters.
toledot: Generations, genealogies
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This word names the generations that unfold from begetting, revealing the longer chain contained in the verse’s repeated act of bringing forth.
THE PATTERN
Life’s continuance appears as fruitfulness: what is living gives rise to what follows.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.THE THREAD
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:“Begat” in both verses comes from ילד (yalad), meaning to bear or bring forth. Here the same root links a father’s years to the next generation, making life’s continuation visible in the genealogy.
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