What Does 1 Chronicles 3:12 Mean?
Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, and Jotham his son.
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
Amaziah his son, Azariah his son, Jotham his son,THE KEY
This line carries a confession inside its names: Yah strengthens, Yah helps, and Yah is whole.
THE MEANING
These names speak now of strength, help, and wholeness held within Yah’s nature. Each person is named in relation to another, “his son”, while the names themselves carry those claims through the line.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
These are only labels in a bare genealogy; each name carries a compact claim about Yah’s strength, help, or wholeness.
THE ROOT
עֲזַרְיָה
ʿAzaryah
GROWS FROM
עזר
ʿ-z-r
Help, aid, or support
Azariah joins the root for help with Yah’s name: the name is commonly understood as “Yah helps.” English leaves that claim tucked inside a proper name, while the same root appears plainly in words for help and helper.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāzar: To help or support
עָזַר
This verb makes the action embedded in Azariah’s name explicit.
ʿēzer: Help or helper
עֵזֶר
This noun shows that the root names both the act of helping and the help itself.
אֲמַצְיָה
ʾAmatsyah
GROWS FROM
אמץ
ʾ-m-ts
Be strong; strengthen
Amaziah is commonly understood as “Yah has strengthened” or “Yah’s strength.” The name places strength alongside Yah rather than leaving it as an isolated quality.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāmaṣ: To be strong or strengthen
אָמַץ
The verb gives the action carried by the name: strength taking hold.
ʾōmeṣ: Strength or courage
אֹמֶץ
This noun shows the same root describing strength as a quality.
יוֹתָם
Yōtām
GROWS FROM
תמם
t-m-m
Be complete or whole
Jotham is commonly understood as “Yah is complete” or “Yah is whole.” The name closes this sequence with wholeness, echoing the root in Hebrew words for completeness and integrity.
ALSO GROWS
tām: Complete, whole, or sound
תָּם
This form shows the root’s sense of wholeness within the name’s meaning.
tāmīm: Complete, whole, or blameless
תָּמִים
This branch carries the same root’s sense of integrity, adding depth to Jotham’s name.
THE PATTERN
A name can carry a person’s nature or calling inside the story, so naming itself can disclose meaning.
And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, the one drawn out, and she said, Because from the waters I drew him out.No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.THE THREAD
My help comes from the LORD, who makes heavens and earth.Azariah contains the root עזר (ʿ-z-r), the same root behind “help” in this verse. Psalm 121:2 lets the name’s hidden claim be heard plainly: help comes from the LORD.
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