What Does Numbers 34:25 Mean in the King James?
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Zebulun, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.
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 prince is a bearer: one named person stands in the lifted place of his tribe as its inheritance is assigned.
THE MEANING
Shared belonging becomes concrete when responsibility has a name: Zebulun’s representative is Elizaphan, son of Parnach. The inheritance is held in common, yet its care is entrusted to particular people whose names and family ties remain visible.
THE ROOT
נָשִׂיא
nasi
GROWS FROM
נשׂא
To lift, carry, or bear.
The Hebrew word for “prince” grows from a root meaning to lift or bear. Leadership here carries an image of bearing responsibility for a people as their share of the inheritance is made concrete.
ALSO GROWS
nasa: To lift, carry, or bear.
נָשָׂא
This root makes the prince’s role more than a title: he bears responsibility as Zebulun’s representative.
massa: A load or burden.
מַשָּׂא
The same root names what is carried, linking leadership with the weight of an entrusted responsibility.
THE PATTERN
Shared goods and responsibilities become concrete through people named and entrusted to administer them.
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.THE THREAD
And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land by inheritance.“Prince” in both verses is nasi, from nasa: to lift, carry, or bear. The name Elizaphan belongs to a larger structure in which each tribe’s representative bears responsibility for its share.
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