What Does 1 Chronicles 6:30 Mean?

Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, and Asaiah his son.

1 Chronicles 6:30 · SDV

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Shimea his son, Haggiah his son, Asaiah his son.

THE KEY

The genealogy carries more than descent: its names trace hearing into celebration and Yah’s making.

THE MEANING

This line lets identity travel through names: Shimea carries hearing, Haggiah carries Yah’s feast, and Asaiah carries Yah’s doing. The sequence places listening, celebration, and making inside the reader’s own chain of what is received and passed on. Succession here holds meaning, not only names.

THE ROOT

שִׁמְעָה

Shim‘ah

GROWS FROM

שמע

Hear, listen, and respond.

Shimea carries the nature of hearing within this family line. The repeated “his son” lets that name pass forward, joining descent with what is heard and received.

ALSO GROWS

shama: Hear and respond.

שָׁמַע

This verb gives Shimea its hearing-root and shows that hearing can carry a response.

shemuah: Report, news, or something heard.

שְׁמוּעָה

This branch shows hearing becoming a message that can be received and carried onward.

חַגִּיָּה

Ḥaggiyyah

GROWS FROM

חגג

Celebrate or keep a feast.

Haggiah joins the feast-word chag with Yah’s name: the name means “feast of Yah.” Celebration is carried as part of this lineage’s named identity, between hearing and making.

ALSO GROWS

chag: A feast or festival.

חַג

This is the feast-word within Haggiah’s name.

chagag: Celebrate or keep a feast.

חָגַג

The verb shows the action contained in the name’s festival-root.

עֲשָׂיָה

‘Asayah

GROWS FROM

עשה

Do or make.

Asaiah joins the root asah, “do” or “make,” with Yah’s name: “Yah has made” or “Yah has done.” The name brings the sequence to an act of making, and the same root names both doing and the work that results.

ALSO GROWS

asah: Do or make.

עָשָׂה

This verb is the action-root in Asaiah’s name.

ma‘aseh: Work or deed.

מַעֲשֶׂה

This branch shows the same root in the work that has been done.

THE PATTERN

A lineage carries meaning through named generations, so what one generation receives can continue in another.

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.

Genesis 5:3 · SDVSeth’s name enters the line as the likeness of one generation is carried into the next.

Abraham brought forth Isaac, and Isaac brought forth Jacob, and Jacob brought forth Judah and his brothers.

Matthew 1:2 · SDVThe repeated names make a chain of descent visible, as in this verse’s repeated “his son.”

When I recall the trust without a mask that is in you, which first made its home in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, I am persuaded that it lives in you also.

2 Timothy 1:5 · SDVWhat is named in one generation is remembered as continuing through the next.

THE THREAD

Hear and respond, O Israel. The LORD our God is one LORD.

Deuteronomy 6:4 · SDV

Shimea shares the root ⁨שמע⁩ with “Hear” (shema), a hearing that responds. That root opens the genealogy as more than a list: hearing itself is carried as a name from one generation to the next.

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