What Does 1 Chronicles 6:11 Mean?
And Azariah brought forth Amariah, and Amariah brought forth Ahitub.
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
And Azariah begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,THE KEY
The names form a quiet chain of meaning: divine help, divine speech, and goodness held as kin.
THE MEANING
Your life is part of a chain of what has been carried forward. This line gathers help, speech, and goodness into that inheritance, so meaning travels alongside the names themselves.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that a genealogy is only a roll call: these names also carry meanings, help, speech, and goodness.
THE ROOT
עֲזַרְיָה
ʿAzaryāh
GROWS FROM
עזר
Help, aid, or support.
The name carries the root for help, so Azariah can be heard as “Yahweh has helped.” English shows a person where Hebrew also lets you hear a declaration; the same seed appears in the name Eliezer and in the word for “help” in Exodus 18:4.
ALSO GROWS
ʿēzer: Help or helper.
עֵזֶר
It makes the name’s root audible as a source of assistance carried in a person’s name.
ʿezrāh: Help or support.
עֶזְרָה
This branch shows that the root names support itself, not only the act of helping.
אֲמַרְיָה
ʾAmaryāh
GROWS FROM
אמר
To say or speak.
Amariah carries the root of saying within a name. The line moves from help to speech, while Hebrew keeps that speech close to the person who bears the name.
ALSO GROWS
ʾōmer: An utterance or saying.
אֹמֶר
It turns the root’s act of speaking into the spoken word itself.
ʾimrāh: A saying or word.
אִמְרָה
It shows how the same seed can name what is spoken and carried forward.
אֲחִיטוּב
ʾAḥîṭûḇ
GROWS FROM
טוב
Good, pleasing, or beneficial.
Ahitub joins “brother” to the root for good: goodness is named in the language of kinship. English preserves the name but leaves that relationship between family and goodness hidden.
ALSO GROWS
ṭôḇ: Good or pleasing.
טוֹב
It is the root word carried in Ahitub’s name.
ṭôḇāh: Goodness or benefit.
טוֹבָה
It opens the name toward goodness as something shared, not merely a label.
THE PATTERN
A biblical name can carry the act or quality it names into the story.
And the name of the other was Eliezer, my God is help; for the God of my father, he said, was my help, and snatched me from the sword of Pharaoh.And she conceived again, and bore a son, and she said, Now I will extend my hands to the LORD. Therefore she called his name Judah, Praise, and she stood from bearing.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
And the name of the other was Eliezer, my God is help; for the God of my father, he said, was my help, and snatched me from the sword of Pharaoh.Azariah carries the Hebrew root עזר (ʿ-z-r), meaning help; Eliezer carries that same root. In Exodus, the meaning is spoken aloud as “mine help,” making the genealogy’s first name a declaration as well as a person.
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