What Does Numbers 26:35 Mean in the King James?

These are the sons of Ephraim after their families: of Shuthelah, the family of the Shuthalhites: of Becher, the family of the Bachrites: of Tahan, the family of the Tahanites.

Numbers 26:35 · KJV

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THE KEY

Ephraim’s name carries fruitfulness, and here that fruitfulness appears as three distinct, named family lines.

THE MEANING

Fruitfulness here is not abstract; it takes shape in distinct family lines, each named and traceable. You can belong to a larger people without disappearing into an unnamed whole.

THE ROOT

אֶפְרַיִם

ʾEfrayim

GROWS FROM

פ־ר־ה

Bear fruit; be fruitful.

Ephraim’s name is tied to the root for being fruitful. Here that seed takes visible form in three separately named clans: fruitfulness becomes a growing family with distinct branches.

ALSO GROWS

pārāh: To bear fruit; to be fruitful.

פָּרָה

This is the verb connected to Ephraim’s name, giving the list of descendants a deeper sense of fruitfulness taking form.

hifranî: He made me fruitful; he caused me to bear fruit.

הִפְרָנִי

The same root appears in the explanation of Ephraim’s name in Genesis 41:52, linking the name directly to the fruitfulness now displayed in his family lines.

THE PATTERN

Fruitfulness is living capacity taking visible form in multiplication and distinct branches.

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.

Genesis 1:28 · KJVFruitfulness unfolds as multiplication, life extending into many forms.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;

Psalm 92:14 · KJVFruitfulness remains an active expression of life, even in old age.

I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.

John 15:5 · KJVThe vine’s life becomes visible in its branches as fruit.

THE THREAD

And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.

Genesis 41:52 · KJV

Genesis connects Ephraim’s name to the root for being fruitful. Numbers 26:35 shows that fruitfulness branching into three named family lines.

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