What Does 1 Chronicles 2:46 Mean?
And Ephah, Caleb's concubine, brought forth Haran, and Moza, and Gazez; and Haran brought forth Gazez.
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 Ephah, Caleb’s concubine, bare Haran, and Moza, and Gazez: and Haran begat Gazez.THE KEY
Gazez appears twice, and the name carries the root of shearing: the verse makes a nature recur inside a genealogy.
THE MEANING
Life reaches you through a line of generations, and names can return within it. Gazez appears first among Ephah’s children and again as Haran’s child; the verse leaves that recurrence unexplained.
THE ROOT
גָּזֵז
Gazez
GROWS FROM
גזז
gazaz
To shear or cut off, especially wool from a flock.
The name Gazez carries the image of shearing, and the verse gives that name to two people in the same family line. Its repetition lets the name’s nature echo across generations, though the verse does not say why it returns.
ALSO GROWS
gazaz: To shear or cut off wool.
גָּזַז
This verb reveals the action held in the name Gazez.
gez: Fleece or the act of shearing.
גֵּז
This branch keeps the name connected to what is removed from the flock.
יָלְדָה
yaldah
GROWS FROM
ילד
yalad
To bear or beget; to bring forth a child.
“brought forth” in this verse is yaldah. The two English verbs “bare” and “begat” translate forms of the same Hebrew root. The shared root makes the verse’s two links in the family line sound like one continuing act of bringing forth.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: A child.
יֶלֶד
The child is the person brought forth by the action of yalad.
toledot: Generations or descendants.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This branch names the unfolding line of births that the verse traces.
מוֹצָא
Motsa
GROWS FROM
יצא
yatsa
To go out or come forth.
Moza is connected with the Hebrew noun for an outlet or going forth. Beside the repeated words for bearing children, the name adds an image of life emerging into the world.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: To go out or come forth.
יָצָא
This verb is the root action carried by the name Moza.
motsa: An outlet, source, or place of going forth.
מוֹצָא
This branch makes Moza’s name resonate with the children coming forth in the verse.
THE PATTERN
A genealogy carries life forward by naming the links between generations.
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.Now these are the births of Perez. Perez brought forth Hezron.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
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 same root, ילד (yalad, to bear or beget), links the births in this verse with Adam’s begetting of Seth. Genesis adds that Seth bears Adam’s likeness, so the line carries more than names: it carries likeness forward.
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