What Does 1 Chronicles 4:6 Mean?
And Naarah bore him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.
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King James wording
King James Version
And Naarah bare him Ahuzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.THE KEY
One act of bearing becomes four named continuations: the verse shows a family line branching into distinct lives.
THE MEANING
This verse holds origin and distinction together: four sons come through Naarah, yet each has his own name. Life reaches you through relationship and still takes a particular shape in you.
THE ROOT
יָלְדָה
yāləḏāh
GROWS FROM
ילד
y-l-d
To bear, beget, or bring forth.
“bare” in this verse is yāləḏāh. The verb for bearing belongs to the same root as words for child and generations. The English separates birth from the family line that follows; the Hebrew root holds them together as one movement of life continuing.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child or offspring.
יֶלֶד
The child is the life brought forth by the act of bearing.
toledot: Generations, descendants, or family origins.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
The root of “bare” also shapes the word for the generations that grow from a birth.
בְּנֵי
bənê
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
To build or establish.
The Hebrew word for son, ben, is traditionally linked with banah, “to build.” The four sons are distinct names and, together, the continuing structure of Naarah’s family line.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son or child.
בֵּן
A son is heard within the language of building and continuing a household.
binyan: Building or structure.
בִּנְיָן
This branch makes visible the building sense associated with the word for son.
THE PATTERN
Life continues through named generations, with each new branch carrying a lineage forward.
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.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.Abraham brought forth Isaac, and Isaac brought forth Jacob, and Jacob brought forth Judah and his brothers.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.“Begat” here and “bare” in this verse come from the Hebrew root ילד (y-l-d; yalad, to bear or beget). Both show birth as the beginning of a named life and a continuing family line.
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