What Does Numbers 26:58 Mean in the King James?

These are the families of the Levites: the family of the Libnites, the family of the Hebronites, the family of the Mahlites, the family of the Mushites, the family of the Korathites. And Kohath begat Amram.

Numbers 26:58 · KJV

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THE KEY

In this family list, Levi’s name echoes joining, while Kohath’s begetting of Amram shows belonging carried through birth.

THE MEANING

This verse meets you through a people whose belonging is carried in named family lines. It names the Levites as families and traces Kohath’s line through Amram, so identity appears as both joining and generational passage. Your present, too, is connected to lives and names that came before you.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It loosens the belief that you begin as a self-contained person with no inherited ties or story; here, belonging arrives through joined names and generations.

THE ROOT

הַלֵּוִי

ha-Levi

GROWS FROM

לוה

lavah

To join, attach, or accompany.

“Levites” in this verse is ha-Levi. The name Levi is linked in Genesis 29:34 with ⁨לוה⁩ (lavah), “to join.” That sound-link lets the family list carry a sense of connection inside the name itself.

ALSO GROWS

Levi: Levi, a name linked with joining.

לֵוִי

The verse calls these households the families of the Levites, so the name’s echo of joining sits inside their shared lineage.

yillaveh: Will be joined or attached.

יִלָּוֶה

This is the form used in Genesis 29:34, where being joined names the connection carried by Levi’s name.

הוֹלִיד

holid

GROWS FROM

ילד

yalad

To bear, give birth, or beget.

The verb ⁨הוֹלִיד⁩ (holid), “begat,” shares its root with ⁨יֶלֶד⁩ (yeled), “child,” and ⁨תּוֹלְדוֹת⁩ (toledot), “generations.” The root holds the act of bringing forth and the generations that follow together.

ALSO GROWS

yeled: Child; one born.

יֶלֶד

The branch names the child brought forth by the act of begetting.

toledot: Generations; descendants.

תּוֹלְדוֹת

This branch shows how one birth extends into a lineage, the movement the verse traces from Kohath to Amram.

THE PATTERN

A person’s place in a people is carried through named generations and inherited ties.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 5:1 · KJVThe verse places Adam within a named line of generations.

Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

Ruth 4:18 · KJVThe line of Pharez continues through named descendants, as Kohath’s line continues through Amram.

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

2 Timothy 1:5 · KJVThe verse locates what is present in Timothy within ties that reach through his grandmother and mother.

THE THREAD

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

Genesis 29:34 · KJV

Numbers names the families of Levi; Genesis 29:34 links Levi’s name with “joined unto me,” from ⁨לוה⁩ (lavah), “to join.” The name thus carries an echo of attachment within the verse’s line of families.

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