What Does Numbers 3:27 Mean in the King James?

And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.

Numbers 3:27 · KJV

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THE KEY

The list’s family tree contains Hebron, a name rooted in joining: here, connection is one of the ways belonging takes shape.

THE MEANING

Your belonging can hold distinct identities without flattening them into one. The verse names the Amramite, Izeharite, Hebronite, and Uzzielite families as separate branches within the larger Kohathite family.

THE ROOT

הַחֶבְרֹנִי

ha-Ḥeḇrōnî

GROWS FROM

חבר

ḥ-b-r

Join, bind together, associate.

“Hebronite” in this verse is ha-Ḥeḇrōnî. Hebron carries this joining root, and here it names one distinct family branch within a larger family. The name lets connection and distinct identity stand together.

ALSO GROWS

ḥāḇar: To join or bind together.

חָבַר

This joining sense underlies the name Hebron, one of the branches named within the Kohathite family.

ḥāḇēr: A companion or associate.

חָבֵר

This branch gives joining a personal form, echoing how the verse places named families in relation to one another.

הָעֻזִּיאֵלִי

ha-ʿUzzîʾēlî

GROWS FROM

עזז

ʿ-z-z

Be strong; have strength or might.

“Uzzielite” in this verse is ha-ʿUzzîʾēlî. Uzziel joins the sense of strength with El, “God”: “God is my strength.” The family name carries an identity inside the list, not just a label for a branch.

ALSO GROWS

ʿōz: Strength or might.

עֹז

This noun carries the strength embedded in the name Uzziel.

ʿaz: Strong, fierce, or bold.

עָז

This related form shows the root’s force as a quality, which the name joins to God.

THE PATTERN

A people is held as a whole through distinct branches that remain named.

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

Genesis 10:32 · KJVThe verse traces nations through named families, showing the larger whole taking shape through distinct branches.

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath were an hundred thirty and three years.

Exodus 6:18 · KJVThe same four names appear as Kohath’s sons, laying out the family branches that Numbers names.

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Ephesians 2:19 · KJVBelonging is pictured as entry into a household, where those once described as outsiders have a place.

THE THREAD

This shall be the service of the sons of Kohath in the tabernacle of the congregation, about the most holy things:

Numbers 4:4 · KJV

The next chapter gives the Kohathites a defined service around the most holy things. The family list opens into an ordered household whose branches carry distinct roles.

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