What Does Numbers 34:26 Mean?
And the lifted one of the branch of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And the prince of the tribe of the children of Issachar, Paltiel the son of Azzan.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.
“lifted one” 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 to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, the one drawn out, and she said, Because from the waters I drew him out.No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.THE THREAD
Even to old age I AM, and to gray hair I will bear you. I have made, and I will lift, I will bear, and I will slip you free.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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