What Does Numbers 26:60 Mean in the King James?
And unto Aaron was born Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
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
Birth carries Aaron’s line forward, while each of his four sons remains distinct by name.
THE MEANING
A life can belong to a continuing family line and still remain distinct. This verse holds four sons within one line and names each one.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that belonging to a family line erases individuality: the line is shared, but each son is named.
THE ROOT
יֻלַּד
yullad
GROWS FROM
ילד
y-l-d
To bear, beget, or bring forth.
The verb comes from ילד (yalad), whose word family also names the child and the generations that come from birth. So “born” carries a line of emergence inside one word: Aaron is joined to four sons, each named separately.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child or boy.
יֶלֶד
The child is another branch of the same root that describes being brought forth.
toledot: Generations or descendants.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This word extends the root from a birth to the generations that follow.
נָדָב
Nadav
GROWS FROM
נדב
n-d-b
To offer willingly or give freely.
Nadab’s name carries the root’s sense of willingness and generosity. The same root names both a willing person and a voluntary gift, compressing the idea of free giving into the first name in this family list.
ALSO GROWS
nadiv: Generous, willing, or noble.
נָדִיב
This branch describes a person marked by the root’s readiness to give.
nedavah: A freewill offering or voluntary gift.
נְדָבָה
This branch shows the root expressed as something freely given.
THE PATTERN
A named child carries a family line forward while remaining a distinct person.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.THE THREAD
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.The same ילד root appears in Genesis as “bare,” where birth is joined immediately to a name and to the language of seed. That root connection lets Aaron’s list read as more than a count: birth carries a line forward through distinct named lives.
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