What Does Numbers 34:26 Mean in the King James?
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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 title “prince” carries the image of one lifted to bear, and Paltiel’s name joins that bearing role to deliverance in God.
THE MEANING
You see a person named within a people: Issachar’s prince is identified, and his father is named with him. Paltiel joins the Hebrew root for escape and deliverance with El, “God”; the title prince echoes lifting and bearing.
THE ROOT
פַּלְטִיאֵל
Paltiel
GROWS FROM
פלט
To escape or slip away; by extension, to survive or be delivered.
Paltiel combines the P-L-T root of escape and deliverance with El, “God.” The name holds deliverance in its very form, rather than treating it as an event separate from the person named.
ALSO GROWS
palit: One who escapes; a survivor.
פָּלִיט
The name’s root carries the sense of someone brought through danger and left standing.
peleitah: Escape; survivors or those who have escaped.
פְּלֵיטָה
This branch makes the name’s deliverance sense concrete: an opening out of danger into survival.
נְשִׂיא
nasi
GROWS FROM
נשא
To lift, carry, or bear.
“prince” in this verse is nasi. The title comes from the root nasa, “lift” or “bear,” and pictures one raised to carry a place among the people. The English title can sound like rank alone; its Hebrew root also evokes bearing.
ALSO GROWS
nasa: To lift, carry, or bear.
נָשָׂא
This is the root beneath the title, giving “prince” an image of bearing as well as elevation.
massa: A burden or load.
מַשָּׂא
The same root connects leadership’s lifted place with the weight that can be carried.
THE PATTERN
Scripture lets a name or title compress a person’s nature or entrusted work into a few words.
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.THE THREAD
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.The Hebrew word translated “bear” here comes from nasa, the root behind “prince” in this verse. The title’s image of one lifted to bear echoes a God who says, “I will bear.”
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