What Does 1 Chronicles 4:5 Mean?
And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.
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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.
King James wording
King James Version
And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.THE KEY
The count of two wives opens into two distinct names, preserving each woman as a person in the family line.
THE MEANING
Ashhur is held in relation to Tekoa, and his two wives are named Helah and Naarah. Their names remain attached to this household, even though the verse tells nothing further about them.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The women in this family line are only anonymous roles. This verse names both of them.
THE ROOT
נַעֲרָה
na'arah
GROWS FROM
נער
na'ar
A young person or youth; the feminine form means a young woman.
Naarah carries the word-family of youth and young womanhood. Her name holds that resonance alongside her place in the household as a wife.
ALSO GROWS
na'ar: Boy, youth, or young man.
נַעַר
The masculine form shows the shared word-family behind Naarah’s name.
ne'urim: Youth or young years.
נְעוּרִים
This form keeps the life-stage resonance present in Naarah’s name.
תְּקוֹעַ
Teko'a
GROWS FROM
תקע
taqa
To thrust or drive in, fasten, or sound a horn.
Tekoa is linked to the root תקע, which carries both the sense of setting something in place and of sounding forth. The verse leaves the name’s particular shade unstated, but its family line is attached to a name with those resonances.
ALSO GROWS
taqa: To thrust in, drive in, or fasten; also to sound a horn.
תָּקַע
This verb supplies the root shared by the place-name Tekoa.
teqiah: A sounding or blast of a trumpet.
תְּקִיעָה
This branch shows the root’s other resonance: a sound sent out.
THE PATTERN
Scripture preserves people in family lines through names placed within their relationships.
And Lamech took to himself two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.And the women who were her neighbors called out a name for him, saying, A son is born to Naomi, and they called his name Obed. He is the father of Jesse, the father of David.But the messenger said to him, Do not be seized by awe, Zacharias, for your need has been heard and answered; and your wife Elisabeth will bring forth a son for you, and you will call his name John.THE THREAD
And after Hezron was dead in Calebephratah, then Abiah, Hezron's wife, brought forth Ashur to him, the father of Tekoa.This earlier line introduces Ashur as Abiah’s son and father of Tekoa; the present verse turns to his household and names his wives. The shared family link makes the two verses parts of one continuous record.
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