What Does 1 Chronicles 2:40 Mean?
And Eleasah brought forth Sisamai, and Sisamai brought forth Shallum,
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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 Eleasah begat Sisamai, and Sisamai begat Shallum,THE KEY
The repeated “begat” makes this genealogy an active passage of life, and its arriving name, Shallum, carries the sound of wholeness.
THE MEANING
The repeated begetting places you within a chain of received life: what reaches you comes through another life, and what you carry can pass onward. The name Shallum echoes a Hebrew root associated with wholeness and completion.
THE ROOT
הוֹלִיד
holid
GROWS FROM
יָלַד
yalad
To bear, bring forth, or beget.
“brought forth” in this verse is holid. The Hebrew verb names bringing forth, so “begat” is more than a label in a family list: it makes the passage an act of life continuing through another. Its repetition gives this short verse the shape of transmission.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child
יֶלֶד
The child is the life brought forth by the action of yalad.
yoledet: One who gives birth
יוֹלֶדֶת
This form names the one bringing forth life, keeping the active sense of the verse visible.
שַׁלּוּם
Shallum
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
sh-l-m
To be whole or complete; in related forms, to render or repay fully.
Shallum belongs to the שׁלם word family, which also carries the sense of wholeness. The proper name preserves a root echo that English leaves quiet: the newest named link in the line carries the sound of completion.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being, peace
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch shows the root’s association with a state made whole.
shalem: Whole, complete
שָׁלֵם
This form makes the completion sense explicit within Shallum’s root family.
אֶלְעָשָׂה
ʾElʿasah
GROWS FROM
עָשָׂה
asah
To do or make.
Eleasah is commonly understood as a name combining El, “God,” with asah, “made” or “did.” The line begins with a name carrying the language of making, then moves through the act of bringing forth.
ALSO GROWS
maʿaseh: Work or deed
מַעֲשֶׂה
A made thing or deed grows from the same root as the name’s making-language.
asiyah: Action or doing
עֲשִׂיָּה
This branch keeps the root’s active sense alongside the verse’s repeated act of begetting.
THE PATTERN
Life is carried forward through generations, with each name marking another link in a living line.
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and brought forth a son in his own likeness, after his image, and called his name Seth.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
Beside him Shallum son of Hallohesh, ruler of the half-district of Jerusalem, strengthened, he and his daughters.Nehemiah names another Shallum, this one repairing Jerusalem’s wall. The shared name carries the שׁלם root family’s echo of wholeness beside the work of repair.
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