What Does 1 Chronicles 2:5 Mean?
The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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The sons of Pharez; Hezron, and Hamul.THE KEY
Perez’s breach becomes the beginning of a lineage: what breaks open can also become a passage into what comes next.
THE MEANING
A rupture does not erase the future carried through it. Perez’s name means breach; the names that follow evoke enclosure and being spared, turning the line from an opening into a place of continuation. The breach remains real, but it is not the end of the story.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A break in your story means your story is over. This verse holds open another possibility: what breaks open can become the start of what follows.
THE ROOT
פֶּרֶץ
Perets
GROWS FROM
פרץ
Break through, burst open; a breach.
“Pharez” in this verse is Perets. The name carries the force of breaking through, not just the fact of a break. The genealogy preserves that breach as the opening through which a line continues.
ALSO GROWS
parats: To break through or burst forth.
פָּרַץ
This is the action inside Perez’s name: an opening made by breaking through.
perets: A breach or break.
פֶּרֶץ
This noun is used in Genesis 38:29 when the breach gives Perez his name.
חֶצְרוֹן
Ḥetsron
GROWS FROM
חצר
Enclosure or courtyard; Hezron is commonly associated with this root.
Following Perez’s breach, Hezron’s name is linked with an enclosed place. The sequence lets a break open into a space where the line can continue.
ALSO GROWS
chatser: Courtyard or enclosure.
חָצֵר
The shared root gives Hezron’s name the sense of a bounded, held place.
chatserim: Courts or villages.
חֲצֵרִים
These enclosures show how the root can name spaces where people dwell.
חָמוּל
Ḥamul
GROWS FROM
חמל
To spare or show compassion.
Hamul’s name carries the sense of being spared. After breach and enclosure, the line ends with the possibility of life preserved.
ALSO GROWS
chamal: To spare or have compassion.
חָמַל
This verb gives the name its sense of being spared.
chemlah: Compassion or pity.
חֶמְלָה
This related noun shows the same root’s movement from sparing to compassion.
THE PATTERN
A breach can become a passage through which what was blocked moves forward.
And it came to be, as he drew back his hand, and behold, his brother came out, and she said, How have you broken through? Let this breach be upon you. Therefore his name was called Pharez, the breach.The one who breaks through goes up before them. They break through, pass through the gate, and go out through it. Their king passes before them, and the LORD is at their head.And David came to Baal-perazim, and David struck them there, and said, The LORD has broken through my enemies before me, like a breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim, lord of breaches.THE THREAD
And it came to be, as he drew back his hand, and behold, his brother came out, and she said, How have you broken through? Let this breach be upon you. Therefore his name was called Pharez, the breach.Genesis shows the breach that gives Perez his name: the same Hebrew root means to break through. Chronicles carries that name into a lineage, so the opening at the beginning remains present in the generations that follow.
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