What Does 1 Chronicles 3:14 Mean?
Amon his son, and Josiah 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
Amon his son, Josiah his son.THE KEY
The repeated “his son” hides a building image: a family line continues by becoming something new in each generation.
THE MEANING
You are not a self-contained beginning: life reaches you through a line, then takes a distinct shape in the next named life. Amon (אָמֹון, ʾāmôn) carries the sound of firmness; Josiah (יֹאשִׁיָּהוּ, Yōʾšiyyāhū) is commonly understood as “Yahweh supports,” so the handoff names support across generations.
THE ROOT
בֵּן
ben
GROWS FROM
בנה
banah
Build, establish.
The word ben (בֵּן, son) is linked with banah (בָּנָה, build): a son continues the family through which a house is built. Repeated twice, “son” makes the verse a structure extending from Amon into Josiah, not a list of disconnected names.
ALSO GROWS
bānāh: Build, establish.
בָּנָה
The son and the act of building share a language of continuity: the family line takes shape across generations.
binyan: Building, structure.
בִּנְיָן
The two father-to-son links make the line itself visible as a structure continuing through distinct lives.
אָמֹון
ʾāmôn
GROWS FROM
אמן
ʾāman
Be firm, support, establish.
Heard through its Hebrew consonants, Amon echoes א־מ־ן, the seed of firmness and support. The name stands at the point where the line passes into Josiah, whose name is commonly understood as “Yahweh supports.”
ALSO GROWS
ʾāman: Be firm, support.
אָמַן
This is the root echoed in Amon, bringing firmness and support into the name at the head of the handoff.
ʾĕmûnāh: Steadiness, trust.
אֱמוּנָה
The root’s sense of firmness opens into steadiness, the quality that can be leaned on across a family line.
ʾāmēn: Firm, true; “Amen.”
אָמֵן
This branch preserves the sense of what is confirmed and made firm.
THE PATTERN
A family line carries identity forward through named generations rather than leaving life as a solitary event.
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.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.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.The word translated “son” is ben, linked with banah, “build.” Here the building is explicit: Adam’s line carries his likeness forward through Seth, so the repeated “son” in the current verse becomes another step in an ongoing structure.
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