What Does 1 Chronicles 2:50 Mean?
These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjathjearim,
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King James wording
King James Version
These were the sons of Caleb the son of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah; Shobal the father of Kirjath-jearim,THE KEY
This genealogy makes a family visible as a landscape: fruitfulness is carried forward until it has a name and a place.
THE MEANING
You are shown a lineage whose identity reaches beyond individual names into a place: Shobal is named as father of Kirjath-jearim. Ephrathah, often associated with fruitfulness, places this succession inside an image of life brought forth and rooted.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A life is only its own story, disconnected from what it inherits and what it helps bring into the world.
THE ROOT
אֶפְרָתָה
Efrātāh
GROWS FROM
פרה
p-r-h
To bear fruit; to be fruitful.
Ephrathah is often associated with the root of fruitfulness. That name stands beside a lineage that takes shape as a settled place, so the verse lets fruitfulness appear as life carried forward into community and landscape.
ALSO GROWS
pārāh: To bear fruit; to be fruitful.
פָּרָה
This verb carries the living action inside Ephrathah’s name: life multiplying and taking form.
perî: Fruit.
פְּרִי
The related noun makes fruitfulness tangible, connecting the place-name with what a living line brings forth.
THE PATTERN
Lineage becomes visible through the people and places it brings into being.
And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Let the LORD give the woman who comes into your house like Rachel and like Leah, the two who built the house of Israel. And act with strength in Ephratah, and call out a name in Bethlehem.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And all the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Let the LORD give the woman who comes into your house like Rachel and like Leah, the two who built the house of Israel. And act with strength in Ephratah, and call out a name in Bethlehem.Ruth names Ephratah again and joins it to Bethlehem, the place associated with this family line. The verse calls Rachel and Leah builders of Israel, making the link between descendants and the places they inhabit explicit.
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