What Does 1 Chronicles 1:25 Mean?
Eber, Peleg, Reu,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James wording
King James Version
Eber, Peleg, Reu,THE KEY
Peleg’s name lets this bare list carry a fracture without letting the lineage end.
THE MEANING
You meet a line that passes through rupture and still continues. Peleg does not erase what came before or after; the next name, Reu, remains in the chain. Division is carried inside continuity.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A break means everything after it is disconnected. The next name follows Peleg, so the division marks the line without erasing its continuation.
THE ROOT
פֶּלֶג
peleg
GROWS FROM
פלג
פלג (p-l-g): to divide, split, or channel.
Peleg’s name is linked to the earth being divided. The same root also gives a word for a stream or channel, so division can suggest a parting that forms channels within a larger terrain.
ALSO GROWS
pālag: To divide, split, or distribute.
פָּלַג
This verb appears in the account of the earth being divided in Peleg’s days, tying the name to a rupture in the larger whole.
peleg: A stream or channel.
פֶּלֶג
A channel is formed by a parting in the terrain; this sense adds the image of division shaping where flow goes.
עֵבֶר
ʿēver
GROWS FROM
עבר
עבר (ʿ-b-r): to pass over or cross; beyond, on the other side.
Eber’s name carries the sense of crossing or being from beyond. Beside Peleg, the name makes the genealogy sound like a passage through division: crossing, then a split, then the line continues.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāvar: To pass over, cross, or go through.
עָבַר
The verb gives Eber’s name a sense of movement across a boundary.
ʿēver: The far side, beyond, or across.
עֵבֶר
This noun holds the image of a place on the other side, adding a crossing to the sequence of names.
THE PATTERN
Scripture names division as a force that can change a whole’s shape while continuity remains visible.
To Eber were born two sons; the name of the one was Peleg, the splitting, for in his days the earth was split; and the name of his brother was Joktan.Swallow, O Lord, and split their tongues, for I have seen violence and strife in the city.For as the body is one, and has many limbs, and all the limbs of the body, though many, are one body, so also is the Anointed One.THE THREAD
To Eber were born two sons; the name of the one was Peleg, the splitting, for in his days the earth was split; and the name of his brother was Joktan.This verse gives Peleg’s name a sentence the genealogy leaves unspoken: his naming is linked to the earth being divided. The root פלג also names a stream or channel, opening division as a parting that shapes the flow through a larger terrain.
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