What Does Numbers 26:19 Mean in the King James?
The sons of Judah were Er and Onan: and Er and Onan died in the land of Canaan.
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
This family line carries its dead by name: Er and Onan remain in the record even as the verse plainly says they died.
THE MEANING
The verse holds two named deaths inside Judah’s family record, giving their loss a place in the line that remembers them. Their names remain visible even where their lives end in Canaan.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that death makes a person vanish from the family record is undone here: both names remain.
THE ROOT
וַיָּמָת
vayyāmat
GROWS FROM
מות
m-w-t
To die, or to be dead.
“died” in this verse is vayyāmat. The root holds both the act of dying and the state of death in one word family. Here, that plain word places two particular deaths together in Judah’s record without hiding the loss behind a general count.
ALSO GROWS
māvet: death
מָוֶת
The noun names the same reality as the verb in the verse, showing how the root holds both dying and death.
mēt: dead; a dead person
מֵת
This form names the state reached by those who die, keeping the verse’s action and its result within one root.
THE PATTERN
A person’s death does not erase their name from the scriptural record.
And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Beth-lehem.By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.THE THREAD
And Er, Judah’s firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him.Genesis 38:7 names Er and says the LORD slew him; Numbers 26:19 holds his death alongside Onan’s. The Hebrew verbs share the root מות, so the stark word “died” carries the same root as this more specific account.
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