What Does 1 Chronicles 2:41 Mean?
And Shallum brought forth Jekamiah, and Jekamiah brought forth Elishama.
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 Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.THE KEY
The names make this genealogy sound like a hidden sequence: wholeness gives rise, and God hears.
THE MEANING
These names carry meanings of wholeness, being raised by God, and God hearing from one generation into the next. The line holds identity as something that can carry meaning forward.
THE ROOT
יְקַמְיָה
Yeqamyah
GROWS FROM
קום
Qum (קוּם) means to rise or stand; in a causative form, to raise or establish.
Jekamiah combines a form of קום with Yah, and the name is commonly understood as “Yah raises” or “Yah establishes.” The root makes raising part of the name’s nature, compressed into the hinge between Shallum and Elishama.
ALSO GROWS
qum: Rise or stand.
קוּם
It reveals the root carried inside Jekamiah’s name.
heqim: Raise or establish.
הֵקִים
This causative branch brings out the sense of Yah raising or establishing.
שַׁלּוּם
Shallum
GROWS FROM
שלם
Shalam (שָׁלַם) means to be complete or whole, and can carry the sense of making good.
Shallum belongs to the same root family as shalom: completeness and wholeness are already carried in the first name of this line. The English keeps the name but leaves that shared seed quiet.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
It shares the root that gives Shallum its sense of completeness.
shillem: Make good or repay.
שִׁלֵּם
This branch shows the root’s movement from wholeness toward making something whole.
אֱלִישָׁמָע
Elishama
GROWS FROM
שמע
Shama (שָׁמַע) means to hear, heed, or respond.
Elishama joins El, “God,” to שמע, “hear,” and is commonly understood as “God hears.” The KJV preserves the name, while its meaning lets the line end with hearing as part of what is carried forward.
ALSO GROWS
shema: Hear and respond.
שְׁמַע
It shows the root’s sense of hearing that includes a response.
shomea: One who hears.
שֹׁמֵעַ
It makes hearing a nature or role, as Elishama does in the name.
THE PATTERN
Scripture uses names to carry meaning about a person’s nature, identity, or calling.
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 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
He raises the bowed one from the dust, and lifts the one in want from the ash heap;Jekamiah carries the root קום (qum), “rise” or “stand,” in a name commonly understood as “Yah raises.” Psalm 113:7 uses that same root for God raising the poor, making the name’s compressed meaning visible as an action.
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