What Does Numbers 26:6 Mean in the King James?

Of Hezron, the family of the Hezronites: of Carmi, the family of the Carmites.

Numbers 26:6 · 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

Here, a name becomes large enough to hold a whole family.

THE MEANING

Hezron and Carmi appear as more than individual names: each name gathers a family around it. The verse shows identity continuing as a shared name carried by many people. Belonging here is something a name can hold across generations.

THE ROOT

חֶצְרוֹן

Ḥeṣrōn

GROWS FROM

חצר

ḥ-ṣ-r

Enclosure, courtyard, or settlement; Hezron carries the image of an enclosed place.

“Hezron” in this verse is Ḥeṣrōn. The name shares its root with words for a bounded place and a lived-in settlement. That image meets the verse’s movement from one name to a whole family: the name becomes a place of belonging for many.

ALSO GROWS

ḥāṣēr: Courtyard or enclosed yard.

חָצֵר

The image of an enclosed place gives Hezron’s name a sense of a shared space held around the people counted under it.

ḥaṣērîm: Settlements or villages; the plural form of ḥāṣēr.

חֲצֵרִים

The same root can name a community of dwellings, echoing how the verse expands a personal name into a family.

כַּרְמִי

Karmī

GROWS FROM

כרם

k-r-m

Vineyard; Carmi carries the sense of “my vineyard.”

Carmi carries a vineyard image alongside Hezron’s enclosure. The family name can be pictured as cultivated ground whose growth continues across generations.

ALSO GROWS

kerem: Vineyard.

כֶּרֶם

The vineyard makes the name carry an image of planted growth, fitting its extension from one person to a family.

karmel: Fertile field or garden land.

כַּרְמֶל

The cultivated image broadens from vineyard to fruitful land, opening the family name toward a wider field of life.

THE PATTERN

Scripture carries identity forward as a personal name becomes a family line and enters wider generations.

And the sons of Reuben; Hanoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

Genesis 46:9 · KJVHezron and Carmi first appear together as named people, the names Numbers 26:6 now associates with families.

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

Ruth 4:18 · KJVHezron is placed within a line of generations, showing how an individual name travels forward.

And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;

Matthew 1:3 · KJVThe name Hezron appears in Greek form as Esrom within a genealogy that carries the line onward.

THE THREAD

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

Ruth 4:18 · KJV

Ruth names Hezron as a link in a generational chain. Numbers shows the same name opening into a family, so the name’s passage through generations becomes visible in both verses.

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