What Does 1 Chronicles 2:9 Mean?
The sons also of Hezron, who were born to him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
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
The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.THE KEY
The names are joined by the word “born”: this verse records lives brought forth, not names standing alone.
THE MEANING
Your life, too, arrives through lives before you; what is born through you extends beyond you. The names remain distinct, yet the verse joins them in a line of birth.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you begin with yourself: your life enters a line it did not start.
THE ROOT
נוֹלְדוּ
nōldû
GROWS FROM
ילד
ילד (y-l-d; yālad): to bear, beget, bring forth.
“were born to him” in this verse is nōldû. The verse introduces these names through the verb of being born, so they appear as lives brought forth from Hezron, not as isolated entries. The same root names both the act of bearing and the child who is born, holding the source and its result together.
ALSO GROWS
yālad: To give birth or bring forth.
יָלַד
It names the act behind the verse’s “were born,” making the relation between Hezron and his sons explicit.
yeled: A child or boy.
יֶלֶד
It names the life that comes forth, joining the root’s act of bearing to the person born.
THE PATTERN
Life is carried forward through birth and inheritance, so each name enters a line rather than standing alone.
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.Look, children are the LORD's portion; and the fruit of the womb is a wage.When I recall the trust without a mask that is in you, which first made its home in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, I am persuaded that it lives in you also.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.Genesis uses the same Hebrew root ילד in וַיּוֹלֶד (wayyoled, “begat”), the active counterpart to נוֹלְדוּ (nōldû, “were born”) here. One root holds both sides of the line together: one generation bears, another is born.
Read the SDV Bible.
Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.
The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.
Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us