What Does 1 Chronicles 6:2 Mean?
And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
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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 the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.THE KEY
The word “sons” carries the image of building, while Hebron’s name carries joining: this line is made of relationship.
THE MEANING
Your identity takes shape through both a line and relationships: the word for sons carries a build image, and the name Hebron carries joining. Each distinct name remains within a larger bond.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the belief that identity is self-made and isolated: the line names belonging as part of how a life is built.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
bənê
GROWS FROM
בנה
Build, establish, bring up.
The Hebrew word for “sons” belongs to a word family linked with building. The genealogy therefore carries an image of a life and household taking shape through those who come after.
ALSO GROWS
bānāh: Build, establish.
בָּנָה
The build image gives “sons” a sense of continuity: the family line takes shape through each generation.
binyan: Building, structure.
בִּנְיָן
This branch makes the genealogy legible as a structure made of named relationships.
חֶבְרוֹן
Ḥeḇrôn
GROWS FROM
חבר
Join, bind, associate.
Hebron’s name carries the sense of joining or association. Inside a list of sons, it makes the bond within the line audible as part of the name itself.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāḇar: Join, associate.
חָבַר
This verb shows the joining carried in Hebron’s name and in the family line around it.
ḥeḇer: Company, band, association.
חֶבֶר
This related noun gives the line the sense of people held together in a shared bond.
עֻזִּיאֵל
ʿUzzîʾēl
GROWS FROM
עזז
Be strong, prevail.
Uzziel’s name combines עֹז (ʿōz, strength) with אֵל (ʾEl, God): “God is my strength.” In this line, strength is named in relation to God rather than as a quality standing alone.
ALSO GROWS
ʿōz: Strength, might.
עֹז
This is the strength named in Uzziel’s name.
ʿāzaz: Be strong, prevail.
עָזַז
The verb shows the action behind the name’s strength: to stand firm or prevail.
THE PATTERN
A person’s name appears within a chain of kinship, making continuity part of identity.
And the sons of Levi, Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.Abraham brought forth Isaac, and Isaac brought forth Jacob, and Jacob brought forth Judah and his brothers.And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years old, being, as was supposed, the son of Joseph, who was the son of Heli.THE THREAD
Look, children are the LORD's portion; and the fruit of the womb is a wage.The same Hebrew word family, בֵּן (bēn, son) and בָּנִים (bānîm, children), lies beneath “sons” here and “children” there. That shared root opens this genealogy as life carried forward through inheritance and relationship.
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