What Does 1 Chronicles 4:8 Mean?
And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.
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King James wording
King James Version
And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.THE KEY
The verb “begat” shares its root with “child” and “generations,” holding a whole line of lives inside one act of bringing forth.
THE MEANING
Here, a life appears through its relations: Coz brings forth descendants, and Aharhel is named within a family line. As you read these names now, the verse holds each one in a chain of people and households.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This verse undoes the idea that a life is self-contained: it is named within a line of begetting and family.
THE ROOT
הוֹלִיד
hôlîd
GROWS FROM
ילד
To bear, bring forth, or beget.
“begat” in this verse is hôlîd. The Hebrew word-family links the act of bringing forth with the child and the generations that follow. The verb holds more than a single event: it carries the continuation of named lives.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child, offspring
יֶלֶד
The child is the life brought forth by the action named in this verse.
toledot: Generations; accounts of what came forth
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This branch names the unfolding line that a genealogy records.
קוֹץ
qots
GROWS FROM
קוץ
Thorn.
Coz is written like the Hebrew word for “thorn,” so the name carries a sharp image into this genealogy. That name stands at the start of a line that continues through descendants and families.
ALSO GROWS
qots: Thorn
קוֹץ
This is the ordinary Hebrew word echoed in the name Coz.
qotsim: Thorns
קוֹצִים
The plural keeps the same thorn image in Hebrew’s word-family.
THE PATTERN
A life is carried forward through the relationships that name its next generations.
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.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.The Hebrew verb translated “begat” comes from the same root, ילד (yalad), in both verses. Its branches include “child” and “generations,” tying a single act of bringing forth to the continuing line this genealogy names.
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