What Does 1 Chronicles 2:47 Mean?
And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Gesham, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
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King James wording
King James Version
And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.THE KEY
Pelet carries the word for escape inside this line of descent, so the genealogy holds release alongside belonging.
THE MEANING
This verse gathers six names under one line of descent. One of them, Pelet, is linked to the Hebrew root for escape and deliverance, letting release sit within the story of belonging.
THE ROOT
פֶּלֶט
Pelet
GROWS FROM
פלט
To escape, slip away, or survive.
Pelet is linked to פלט, the root of escape and deliverance. English leaves the name opaque, while the Hebrew lets the line carry a word for getting free within its list of descendants.
ALSO GROWS
pālîṭ: A survivor or escapee.
פָּלִיט
This branch names the one who gets out, giving Pelet’s root the shape of a person who survives.
pəlêṭāh: Escape, deliverance, or a remnant that escapes.
פְּלֵיטָה
This branch shows the root can name both the act of escape and those who remain after danger.
THE PATTERN
The root פלט holds escape together with what survives and remains after danger.
They will cover the eye of the land, so that no one can see the land. They will eat what has escaped, the remnant that was left to you from the hail, and they will eat every tree that sprouts for you out of the field.And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will slip free, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors whom the LORD calls.THE THREAD
And it will be that everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will slip free, for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be escape, as the LORD has said, and among the survivors whom the LORD calls.Joel’s word for “deliverance” is פְּלֵיטָה (pəlêṭāh), from the same root as Pelet. The name in this genealogy opens onto a root that also speaks of escape and the remnant that remains.
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