What Does 1 Chronicles 1:14 Mean?
And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,
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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
The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,THE KEY
The list keeps one ancestry from becoming a blur: Jebusite, Amorite, and Girgashite remain three distinct names.
THE MEANING
The verse places three named peoples before you, preserving their distinctions within a shared lineage. Its naming is precise; it does not explain these names or make a further claim about them.
THE ROOT
אֱמֹרִי
ʾĕmōrî
GROWS FROM
אמר
say, speak
The Hebrew name אֱמֹרִי (ʾĕmōrî, Amorite) echoes the consonants of אמר, the root for saying or speaking, though the ethnonym’s derivation is uncertain. This is a sound-link beneath the name, not proof that the people-name comes from that Hebrew verb.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāmar: say, speak
אָמַר
This verb shares the consonants אמר with אֱמֹרִי (ʾĕmōrî, Amorite); the overlap is an echo, not a certain etymology.
ʾimrāh: utterance, saying
אִמְרָה
This related word shows how the root for speaking extends to what is spoken, making the consonantal echo audible as a word-family link.
THE PATTERN
A genealogy names distinct peoples as branches within a shared ancestry.
And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite.These are the families of the sons of Noah, by their births, in their nations; and from these the nations were parted in the earth after the flood.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 the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite.Genesis gives the same triad within Canaan’s genealogy, making the structure of this list clearer. These are names carried as branches of a lineage, not an undifferentiated group.
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