What Does Exodus 6:25 Mean?

“And Eleazar”

elazar, the name of seven israelites

“son”

a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or

“Aaron's”

aharon, the brother of moses

“took”

to take (in the widest variety of applications)

“him one of the daughters”

a daughter (used in the same wide sense as other terms of relationship, literally and figuratively)

“of Putiel”

putiel, an israelite

“to wife”

a woman

“and she bare”

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)

“him Phinehas”

pinechas, the name of three israelites

these or those

“these are the heads”

the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)

“of the fathers”

father, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote application

“of the Levites”

a levite or descendant of levi

“according to their families”

a family, i.e., circle of relatives; figuratively, a class (of persons), a species (of animals) or sort (of things); by extension a tribe or people