What Does 1 Chronicles 3:22 Mean?
And the sons of Shechaniah were Shemaiah; and the sons of Shemaiah were Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
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King James Version
And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.THE KEY
The count closes around Shemaiah, a name meaning “Yah has heard,” making hearing part of what this lineage carries forward.
THE MEANING
The verse names Shemaiah, lists five sons beneath him, and marks the family count as six. Shemaiah means “Yah has heard,” so hearing is carried within one of the names in this lineage.
THE ROOT
שְׁמַעְיָהּ
Shema‘yah
GROWS FROM
שמע
The name means “Yah has heard”; its verbal root שׁמע (shamaʿ) means to hear or listen, with the sense of responding.
The name Shemaiah holds a phrase inside a single word: “Yah has heard.” The list therefore carries the root of hearing within the family record, a connection the English name leaves quiet.
ALSO GROWS
shemaʿ: Hear and respond; listen.
שְׁמַע
This familiar form of the root makes the meaning inside Shemaiah’s name audible: hearing that receives and answers.
shemuʿah: Report, news, or something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
This branch shows the root also naming what is heard and carried onward, echoing how a name carries meaning through a lineage.
THE PATTERN
Scripture preserves a lineage by naming those through whom it passes.
This is the book of the births of Adam. In the day that God created the ground-being, in the likeness of God he made him.Now these are the births of Perez. Perez brought forth Hezron.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
The aligned cry out, and the LORD hears, and snatches them out of all their narrow places.“Shemaiah” (שְׁמַעְיָהּ, Shema‘yah) means “Yah has heard,” and “heareth” comes from the same Hebrew root שמע (shamaʿ), hear or listen. The name’s hidden meaning becomes a spoken action in the psalm: the LORD hears the cry and delivers.
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