What Does 1 Chronicles 1:26 Mean?
Serug, Nahor, Terah,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James wording
King James Version
Serug, Nahor, Terah,THE KEY
Serug may carry an image of interweaving, making this bare genealogy read as a strand of lives carried forward.
THE MEANING
These names place your life within a chain of lives, where each generation carries forward what it did not begin. The verse gives no deeds for Serug, Nahor, or Terah, yet keeps their place in the line visible.
THE ROOT
שְׂרוּג
Śərûḡ
GROWS FROM
סרג
To interweave or form a lattice; Serug’s connection to this root is traditional but uncertain.
“Serug” in this verse is Śərûḡ. If the name is linked to this root, it carries an image of strands woven together. The genealogy’s compressed list then suggests successive lives interlaced, though the verse does not establish that this was the name’s intended meaning.
ALSO GROWS
sārag: To interweave.
סָרַג
This proposed root gives Serug the image of a strand woven into a larger line.
sōrēg: Latticework or railing.
סוֹרֵג
A lattice is made from interlaced parts, echoing the possible image of generations joined in a line.
THE PATTERN
A lineage stays visible through names that carry continuity from one generation to another.
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and brought forth Terah.Who was the son of Jacob, who was the son of Isaac, who was the son of Abraham, who was the son of Thara, who was the son of Nachor.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and brought forth Terah.Chronicles compresses Nahor and Terah into one sequence; Genesis makes their generational handoff explicit. The two verses let you see the list as a chain of lives, rather than three isolated names.
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