What Does 1 Chronicles 14:5 Mean?
Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Elpalet.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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King James wording
King James Version
And Ibhar, and Elishua, and Elpalet,THE KEY
Read together, these three names gather a movement from choosing to deliverance to escape.
THE MEANING
Ibhar carries the sense “he chooses”; Elishua names God as deliverance; Elpalet carries the language of escape. The names hold choosing and deliverance together in this line.
THE ROOT
אֱלִישׁוּעַ
ʾĔlîšûaʿ
GROWS FROM
ישע
Yasha (יָשַׁע) means to deliver, bringing someone out into spaciousness.
Elishua joins El, “God,” to the root of deliverance. What English presents as a personal name also holds deliverance as part of the name’s nature.
ALSO GROWS
yasha: to deliver or rescue
יָשַׁע
This is the root carried in Elishua’s deliverance meaning.
yeshuah: deliverance
יְשׁוּעָה
This noun makes explicit the deliverance named within Elishua.
moshia: deliverer
מוֹשִׁיעַ
This form names the one who brings deliverance.
אֶלְפֶּלֶט
ʾElpelet
GROWS FROM
פלט
Palat (פָּלַט) carries the sense of escaping, slipping away, or surviving.
“Elpalet” in this verse is ʾElpelet. The name joins El, “God,” with the language of escape and survival. Beside Elishua, it makes deliverance concrete: the movement includes getting out and surviving.
ALSO GROWS
palat: to escape or slip away
פָּלַט
The verb gives the name its sense of getting free from danger.
peletah: escape or deliverance
פְּלֵיטָה
This noun echoes the rescue meaning carried in Elpalet.
palit: a survivor, one who escapes
פָּלִיט
This branch shows the person who emerges from the escape.
יִבְחָר
Yivchar
GROWS FROM
בחר
Bachar (בָּחַר) means to choose or select.
Ibhar carries the active sense “he chooses.” Next to the names of deliverance and escape, choosing becomes the first movement in the line’s sequence.
ALSO GROWS
bachar: to choose or select
בָּחַר
This verb carries the action heard in Ibhar’s name.
mivchar: choice, the choicest thing
מִבְחָר
This form shows the root extending from choosing to what is selected.
bachur: young man
בָּחוּר
This related form carries the sense of one selected or distinguished.
THE PATTERN
Scripture lets names carry nature, so a name can state a person’s meaning within the verse.
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.And he led him to Jesus. And Jesus, fixing his gaze on him, said, You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas, the rock.THE THREAD
Look, God is my deliverance. I will lean my full weight and not tremble, for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song, and he has become my deliverance.“My salvation” translates yeshuah (יְשׁוּעָה), from the same deliverance root carried in Elishua. Isaiah states plainly what the name compresses: God and deliverance held together.
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