What Does 1 Chronicles 1:21 Mean?
And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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
Hadoram also, and Uzal, and Diklah,THE KEY
The verse preserves people by their names even when their stories have disappeared from view.
THE MEANING
You belong to a human chain whose names and stories are not always fully recoverable. This spare list lets real lives remain present even when little else about them is visible.
THE ROOT
דִּקְלָה
Diklāh
GROWS FROM
דקל
d-q-l
Palm tree; the name is commonly linked to the Aramaic word for a palm.
Diklah carries a concrete image inside a name that English leaves opaque: the palm. The verse gives no story about this person, so the name itself is one of the few traces that remains.
ALSO GROWS
diklā: Aramaic: palm tree or date palm.
דִּקְלָה
This form underlies the name Diklah, giving the name a living, vegetal image.
dekel: Hebrew cognate: palm tree.
דֶּקֶל
The cognate preserves the same palm image across related Semitic usage.
THE PATTERN
Names keep lives connected across generations, even when the surviving account is brief.
And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah.Genesis 10:27 preserves the same three names together. Their repetition places this short list within a wider map of families and peoples, so these names remain connected rather than isolated.
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