What Does Numbers 26:46 Mean in the King James?

And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.

Numbers 26:46 · KJV

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 family line carries a name associated with flourishing, while Sarah remains visible as a person in her own right.

THE MEANING

Your place in a lineage does not erase your particular name: Sarah belongs to Asher’s line and remains individually named. Inheritance and personhood appear together, even in a single census line.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that belonging to a family reduces a person to their role or ancestry.

THE ROOT

אָשֵׁר

Asher

GROWS FROM

א־ש־ר

ʾ-sh-r

To be happy or flourishing; the root can also carry the sense of going forward.

Asher’s name is tied to the language of happiness: when Leah names him, she says ⁨אָשְׁרִי⁩ (ashri), “happy am I.” This verse keeps that inherited name alongside Sarah’s individual name, so the family line carries a quality without absorbing the person into it.

ALSO GROWS

ashri: Happy am I; flourishing.

אָשְׁרִי

Leah uses this related form just before naming Asher in Genesis 30:13, tying his name to flourishing.

ashrei: Flourishing; flourishing is…

אַשְׁרֵי

The same root opens Psalm 1 with a flourishing person, showing how the idea carried in Asher’s name appears elsewhere in scripture.

THE PATTERN

Scripture carries family identity through spoken names, making a lineage readable as people rather than an anonymous count.

And Leah said, Happy am I, for the daughters will call me blessed: and she called his name Asher.

Genesis 30:13 · KJVAsher receives a name that carries the language of happiness and flourishing.

And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

Genesis 46:17 · KJVSerah is named among Asher’s children, with her place in the family made visible.

And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;

Matthew 1:5 · KJVThe lineage carries names, including Ruth’s, through the family record.

THE THREAD

And the sons of Asher; Jimnah, and Ishuah, and Isui, and Beriah, and Serah their sister: and the sons of Beriah; Heber, and Malchiel.

Genesis 46:17 · KJV

Genesis names Serah among Asher’s children and calls her their sister; Numbers preserves her name in the census line. The two records keep the same person visible within her family.

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