What Does 1 Chronicles 1:11 Mean?
And Mizraim brought forth Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,
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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.
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And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim,THE KEY
Mitzrayim carries the sense of narrowness, yet this verse makes the narrow place a source that branches into peoples.
THE MEANING
The names in this verse branch from Mitzrayim. A place associated with constriction appears here as the source of many distinct peoples, so the narrow place is also generative now.
THE ROOT
מִצְרַיִם
Mitsrayim
GROWS FROM
צ־ר־ר
ts-r-r
To bind, confine, or press in; the related צַר (tsar) means narrow or tight.
“Mizraim” in this verse is Mitsrayim. Mitzrayim is heard through the צ־ר־ר word family of narrowness and distress, with the ending -ayim carrying a dual form. Set beside “begat,” the name associated with constriction becomes the source of branching peoples.
ALSO GROWS
tsar: Narrow, tight, constricted
צַר
It gives the narrowness carried in Mitzrayim a concrete shape.
metsar: A narrow place or strait
מֵצַר
It names the constrained space from which the verse’s many branches emerge.
tsarah: Distress, trouble
צָרָה
It shows how the same word family connects physical narrowness with the pressure a person experiences.
הוֹלִיד
holid
GROWS FROM
י־ל־ד
y-l-d
To bear, give birth, or bring forth.
“brought forth” in this verse is holid. הוֹלִיד (holid, begat) comes from יָלַד (yalad, bear or give birth), the same root that names a child and a birthplace. Hebrew keeps birth as an act of bringing forth, so these names read as living branches in a line of emergence.
ALSO GROWS
yalad: To bear, give birth, beget
יָלַד
It is the verb’s seed: the peoples are presented as brought forth from a source.
yeled: Child
יֶלֶד
It names the one who emerges from the act of birth.
moledet: Birth, birthplace, or native land
מוֹלֶדֶת
It links a line of birth to the place and people that grow from it.
THE PATTERN
Scripture presents many peoples as branches from a shared human line.
And Mizraim brought forth Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim. And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, from whom went out Philistim, and Caphtorim.And he made from one blood every nation of humankind to settle upon all the face of the earth, marking out their fitted seasons and setting the boundary stones of their dwelling.THE THREAD
And I have come down to snatch them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land into a good and wide land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.Exodus uses the same name, מִצְרַיִם (Mitsrayim, Egypt), for the place of constriction from which people are brought out toward spaciousness. Here that same name marks a source that branches into peoples, tying the genealogy to the larger movement from narrowness into room.
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