What Does Nehemiah 11:36 Mean in the King James?
And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.
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
Here, division is how shared service reaches more than one territory.
THE MEANING
A shared life can hold distinct places and roles. The Levites’ divisions place their service in both Judah and Benjamin, showing how what belongs to one whole can be distributed across it. Your place in that whole does not depend on everyone occupying the same ground.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Unity requires everyone to stay in one place.
THE ROOT
מַחְלְקוֹת
maḥleqōt
GROWS FROM
חלק
ḥ-l-q
to divide, apportion, or allot
The word for divisions grows from the same root as the word for a portion: separation can describe an allotment with a place and purpose. Here, the root makes the Levites’ spread across Judah and Benjamin read as an organized sharing of service within one people.
ALSO GROWS
ḥālaq: to divide or apportion
חָלַק
This verb names the action held inside “divisions”: portions are assigned across a larger whole.
ḥēleq: a portion or share
חֵלֶק
This branch shows that what is divided can also be a person’s allotted share, rather than a break in belonging.
THE PATTERN
Shared work is sustained by assigning distinct portions across a larger whole.
Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.THE THREAD
Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.Genesis uses the same root, חלק (ḥ-l-q, to divide or apportion), for Levi’s division and scattering in Israel. Here, that shared root appears in organized divisions across Judah and Benjamin, linking scattering and assigned service while leaving their different purposes visible.
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