What Does 1 Chronicles 6:14 Mean?
And Azariah brought forth Seraiah, and Seraiah brought forth Jehozadak.
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.
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King James Version
And Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak,THE KEY
This genealogy turns descent into a three-part declaration: Yah helps, Yah rules, and Yah brings things into alignment.
THE MEANING
You meet a family line whose names declare Yah as helper, ruler, and the one who sets things right. The sequence makes those claims present within ordinary human succession, so a list of fathers becomes a living testimony.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a genealogy is only a record: these names carry a compressed testimony of help, rule, and alignment.
THE ROOT
עֲזַרְיָהוּ
ʿAzaryāhū
GROWS FROM
עזר
ʿ-z-r
Help, support.
Azariah joins the root of help to Yah, commonly understood as “Yah has helped.” Its place at the start of this sequence makes help the first nature named in the line.
ALSO GROWS
ʿēzer: Help, aid.
עֵזֶר
The same root names help itself, opening Azariah’s claim into a quality carried through the genealogy.
ʿezrāh: Help, assistance.
עֶזְרָה
This branch keeps the root’s sense of support visible beneath the personal name.
שְׂרָיָהוּ
Śərāyāhū
GROWS FROM
שׂרר
ś-r-r
Rule, exercise authority.
Seraiah is commonly understood as “Yah is ruler,” joining the divine name with the root behind chief or ruler. The middle name places authority between the line’s declaration of help and its declaration of alignment.
ALSO GROWS
śar: Chief, prince, ruler.
שַׂר
This branch gives Seraiah its sense of rule and makes the name a statement about who holds authority.
śərārāh: Authority, dominion.
שְׂרָרָה
The related noun draws out the governing force contained in the name’s root.
יְהוֹצָדָק
Yəhōṣādāq
GROWS FROM
צדק
ṣ-d-q
Be right, be just; come into alignment.
Jehozadak joins the divine name to the root of alignment and is commonly glossed “Yah is righteous.” It gives the final name in the sequence a claim about right order as part of Yah’s nature.
ALSO GROWS
ṣedeq: Justice, right alignment.
צֶדֶק
This branch names the right order carried in Jehozadak’s root.
ṣaddīq: A just or aligned person.
צַדִּיק
This branch shows how the root describes a person in relation to what is right.
THE PATTERN
A scriptural name can compress a person’s nature into a living declaration.
No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.And he said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, the one who struggles with God, for you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.Look, the virgin will carry in her womb, and will bring forth a son, and they will call his name Emmanuel, God with us.THE THREAD
My help comes from the LORD, who makes heavens and earth.The word “help” here comes from עזר (ʿ-z-r), the same root carried in Azariah’s name. Psalm 121 makes that name’s claim explicit: help comes from the LORD.
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