What Does 1 Chronicles 3:6 Mean?
Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet.
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
Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,THE KEY
These names turn a list into a compact testimony: God chooses, God hears, and God is deliverance.
THE MEANING
The names make a living sequence: chosen, heard by God, and held within deliverance. What looks like a bare line of names carries a testimony of relationship and release.
THE ROOT
אֱלִיפֶלֶט
ʾElîp̄eleṭ
GROWS FROM
פלט
pālaṭ
To escape or slip away; by extension, escape or deliverance.
“Eliphelet” in this verse is ʾElîp̄eleṭ. The name joins אֵל (ʾel, God) with פֶּלֶט (pēleṭ, escape or deliverance). The KJV preserves the name’s sound, while its meaning places deliverance inside the nature it names.
ALSO GROWS
pālîṭ: A fugitive or survivor, one who escapes.
פָּלִיט
This branch makes escape a person’s lived condition, deepening the name’s sense of deliverance.
pəlêṭāh: Escape, survivors, or a remnant.
פְּלֵיטָה
Deliverance can name both the way out and those who come through it.
אֱלִישָׁמָע
ʾElîšāmaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
shāmaʿ
To hear, listen, or give heed.
“Elishama” in this verse is ʾElîšāmaʿ. The name joins אֵל (ʾel, God) with שָׁמַע (shāmaʿ, hear): God hears. The untranslated name keeps that claim beneath the English surface, and the next name carries the testimony onward to deliverance.
ALSO GROWS
shāmaʿ: To hear or listen.
שָׁמַע
This is the hearing named in Elishama: attention is part of the name’s claim.
shemuʿāh: A report or news.
שְׁמוּעָה
The same root can describe what is heard and received, extending the name’s sense of hearing into communication.
יִבְחָר
Yivḥar
GROWS FROM
בחר
bāḥar
To choose or select.
Ibhar carries the choosing root in its name. At the head of the sequence, it gives the line a beginning: choosing, hearing, then deliverance.
ALSO GROWS
bāḥar: To choose or select.
בָּחַר
This is the root carried by Ibhar, making choosing part of the name’s nature.
mivḥar: A choice or the choicest selection.
מִבְחָר
This branch shows the root can describe what is selected, as well as the act of choosing.
THE PATTERN
A name can preserve a testimony of what a person is held for.
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.When the days had come around, Hannah conceived and bore a son, and called his name Samuel, the asked-for one, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.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
The aligned cry out, and the LORD hears, and snatches them out of all their narrow places.The Hebrew behind heareth shares the root שמע (shāmaʿ, hear) with Elishama, whose name means God hears. Psalm 34:17 places hearing beside deliverance, echoing the testimony carried by these names.
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