The Meaning of Genesis 19:36 Explained

Genesis 19:36

KJV: Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

YLT: And the two daughters of Lot conceive from their father,

Darby: And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.

ASV: Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Thus were both  the daughters  of Lot  with child  by their father. 

What does Genesis 19:36 Mean?

Study Notes

Thus were
Abraham and Lot are contrasted characters. Of the same stock Genesis 11:31 subjected to the same environment, and both justified men; Genesis 15:6 ; 2 Peter 2:7 ; 2 Peter 2:8 the contrast in character and career is shown to be the result of their respective choices at the crisis of their lives. Lot "chose him all the plain of Jordan" for present advantage; Abraham "looked for a city which hath foundations"; Hebrews 11:10 ; Genesis 13:18 "came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre (fatness), which is in Hebron" (communion). The men remain types of the worldly and spiritual believer.

Chapter Summary: Genesis 19

1  Lot entertains two angels
4  The vicious Sodomites are smitten with blindness
12  Lot is warned, and in vain warns his sons-in-law
15  He is directed to flee to the mountains, but obtains leave to go into Zoar
24  Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed
26  Lot's wife looks back and becomes a pillar of salt
29  Lot dwells in a cave
31  The incestuous origin of Moab and Ammon

What do the individual words in Genesis 19:36 mean?

Thus became pregnant the two daughters of Lot by their father
וַֽתַּהֲרֶ֛יןָ שְׁתֵּ֥י בְנֽוֹת־ ל֖וֹט מֵאֲבִיהֶֽן

וַֽתַּהֲרֶ֛יןָ  Thus  became  pregnant 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person feminine plural
Root: הֹור 
Sense: to conceive, become pregnant, bear, be with child, be conceived, progenitor.
שְׁתֵּ֥י  the  two 
Parse: Number, fdc
Root: שְׁנַיִם  
Sense: two.
בְנֽוֹת־  daughters 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct
Root: בַּת  
Sense: daughter.
ל֖וֹט  of  Lot 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: לֹוט  
Sense: son of Haran and Abraham’s nephew who settled in Sodom and was delivered from its destruction by God.
מֵאֲבִיהֶֽן  by  their  father 
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct, third person feminine plural
Root: אָב  
Sense: father of an individual.