What Does Numbers 26:42 Mean in the King James?
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 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 meaning “judge” into the family line, so the census preserves a name’s meaning alongside the names of its descendants.
THE MEANING
Your place in a larger whole does not erase the particular line by which you are known. The verse names Dan, then a family within Dan, then gathers that family back into the wider clan: belonging stays both specific and shared.
THE ROOT
דָּן
dān
GROWS FROM
דין
To judge; judgment.
The name Dan is linked to the Hebrew root for judging, a meaning made explicit in the naming story of his birth. Here the name continues through a family line, carrying its meaning as the clan is counted.
ALSO GROWS
din: judgment
דִּין
The root’s basic sense beneath Dan’s name.
yādîn: he shall judge
יָדִין
The same root appears as an action in Genesis 49:16, where Dan is named as the one who will judge his people.
THE PATTERN
A larger people is made visible through distinct members whose belonging remains named.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.THE THREAD
Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.Here the name Dan becomes an action: “shall judge” comes from the same Hebrew root carried in his name. Numbers 26:42 follows that name into a family line, letting the root’s meaning remain attached to the clan.
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