What Does 1 Chronicles 6:27 Mean?
Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, and Elkanah his son.
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
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Eliab his son, Jeroham his son, Elkanah his son.THE KEY
These names turn a family line into a compressed story of God as father, compassion, and the one who acquires.
THE MEANING
This lineage speaks through names as well as descent: Eliab joins God and father, Jeroham carries the root of compassion, and Elkanah joins God with acquiring. The line holds belonging and compassion within the story of who comes after whom.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A genealogy is only a list of biological links, and its names carry no meaning beyond identifying each person.
THE ROOT
יְרֹחָם
Jeroham
GROWS FROM
רחם
racham
To show compassion or mercy.
Jeroham carries the root of compassion, which also forms the Hebrew word for womb. That shared root links compassion with tender care and shelter, giving the name a depth that a family register alone does not show.
ALSO GROWS
rechem: Womb.
רֶחֶם
This branch connects compassion with a place of shelter and nurture.
rachamim: Compassion or mercies.
רַחֲמִים
This branch makes the compassion carried in Jeroham’s name explicit.
אֶלְקָנָה
Elkanah
GROWS FROM
קנה
qanah
To acquire or possess; in some contexts, to create.
Elkanah joins El, “God,” with qanah, “acquire” or “possess.” The name can be heard as “God has acquired,” adding the language of belonging to this succession of names.
ALSO GROWS
qoneh: Acquirer or possessor.
קֹנֵה
This form makes the acquiring sense in Elkanah’s name audible.
miqneh: Possession, property, or livestock.
מִקְנֶה
This branch shows the root extending from acquiring to what is held as a possession.
THE PATTERN
A genealogy carries identity forward through both descent and the meanings held in names.
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.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And the LORD passed by before his face, and called out, The LORD, The LORD God, compassionate and full of favor, slow to flare, abounding in faithful love and truth,The Hebrew word translated “merciful” comes from רחם, the same root carried by Jeroham. The name in this lineage therefore echoes compassion as a quality named in the LORD’s own self-description.
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