What Does 1 Chronicles 14:7 Mean?
And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.
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
And Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphalet.THE KEY
These three names carry a movement: God hears, God knows, and deliverance follows.
THE MEANING
Even in this bare list, the names speak of being heard and known, and of deliverance. That movement reaches you now: being unseen does not mean you are unheard or unknown.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the belief that silence means you have been forgotten.
THE ROOT
אֱלִישָׁמָע
ʾĔlîšāmāʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
Hear, listen, heed
Elishama carries the root שמע, “hear,” inside a name: being heard is part of the name’s nature. English gives you a person’s name; the Hebrew also lets you hear the verb within it.
ALSO GROWS
shāmaʿ: To hear or listen
שָׁמַע
This is the verb carried by Elishama: the name speaks of God hearing.
shemuʿāh: A report or tidings
שְׁמוּעָה
This branch names what is heard and received, extending the root from listening to the message that reaches someone.
בְּעֶלְיָדָע
Beʿelyādāʿ
GROWS FROM
ידע
Know, recognize
“Beeliada” in this verse is Beʿelyādāʿ. The name contains ידע, “know,” joining knowing to the preceding name’s hearing. The list holds both: being heard and being known.
ALSO GROWS
yādaʿ: To know or recognize
יָדַע
This verb gives Beeliada its knowing nature.
daʿat: Knowledge or understanding
דַּעַת
This noun shows knowing as something held, giving the name more depth than a label.
אֱלִיפָלֶט
ʾĔlîp̄āleṭ
GROWS FROM
פלט
Escape, slip away, deliver
Eliphalet carries the root פלט, which speaks of escape and deliverance. After hearing and knowing, the name gives the list an opening out of danger.
ALSO GROWS
pālaṭ: To escape or bring safely out
פָּלַט
This verb reveals the deliverance carried in Eliphalet’s name.
pelēṭāh: Escape or survivors
פְּלֵיטָה
This branch shows the result of the root’s movement: what was caught in danger comes through.
THE PATTERN
Being heard and known is bound together with being brought through danger.
The aligned cry out, and the LORD hears, and snatches them out of all their narrow places.Because he clings to me, I let him slip free; I set him on high, for he knows my nature.Who brought us out of so great a death, and brings us out; in whom we hope that he will yet bring us out.THE THREAD
The aligned cry out, and the LORD hears, and snatches them out of all their narrow places.Elishama contains שמע, “hear,” and Psalm 34:17 uses that same root in “heareth.” The verse then adds deliverance, bringing the list’s first and third names into one line.
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