What Does 1 Chronicles 2:43 Mean?
And the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.
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 the sons of Hebron; Korah, and Tappuah, and Rekem, and Shema.THE KEY
Hebron means association: the genealogy places each distinct name inside a bond of belonging.
THE MEANING
Your belonging takes shape through connection, while your distinct name remains present within it. The sons are individually named under Hebron, whose name carries association: relationship holds people together without making them anonymous.
THE ROOT
חֶבְרוֹן
Ḥevron
GROWS FROM
חבר
To join, connect, or associate.
Hebron carries the seed of joining within its name. English leaves it as a place or family name, while Hebrew lets the genealogy speak of belonging as association among distinct people.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāvar: To join or associate.
חָבַר
This verb makes the joining implicit in Hebron’s name visible as an action.
ḥāvēr: Companion or associate.
חָבֵר
This branch shows how joining becomes a human bond between people.
ḥōverōt: Coupled or joined together.
חֹבְרֹת
The same root describes distinct parts linked together, as in the curtains of Exodus 26:3.
שְׁמַע
Shemaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
To hear, listen, or heed.
Shema carries the Hebrew seed of hearing and listening inside a personal name. English leaves an unfamiliar name, while Hebrew lets the reader hear a root associated with receiving and responding.
ALSO GROWS
shāmaʿ: To hear or listen.
שָׁמַע
This verb reveals the root carried within Shema’s name.
shemuʿah: A report or something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
This branch shows hearing becoming what is received and passed on.
shōmēaʿ: One who hears or listens.
שֹׁמֵעַ
This branch makes hearing a quality of a person, not merely a sound arriving at the ear.
THE PATTERN
Belonging takes shape as joining that holds distinct lives together.
The five curtains shall be joined one to another, and five other curtains shall be joined one to another.I am joined to all who stand in awe of you, and to those who guard your precepts.So we, though many, are one body in the Anointed One, and each of us is a limb of one another.THE THREAD
I am joined to all who stand in awe of you, and to those who guard your precepts.“Companion” is חָבֵר (ḥāvēr), from the same חבר root carried in Hebron. The root opens the genealogy’s sense of association into a personal bond: belonging becomes company shared with others.
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