What Does 1 Chronicles 6:46 Mean?
The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer.
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
The son of Amzi, the son of Bani, the son of Shamer,THE KEY
These names make ancestry visible as strength, building, and keeping carried through a chain of lives.
THE MEANING
Your life, too, stands within a line of people and what they carry forward. The names here hold echoes of strength, building, and keeping, making continuity visible in the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that what reaches you begins with you: the verse places a life within something already being carried forward.
THE ROOT
שֶׁמֶר
Shemer
GROWS FROM
שמר
shamar
Keep, guard, watch.
“Shamer” in this verse is Shemer. The name echoes the root of keeping and guarding, so this family line carries the image of something watched over as it passes through generations. A name here holds a way of preserving what has been entrusted.
ALSO GROWS
shamar: Keep, guard, watch.
שָׁמַר
The root itself gathers keeping, guarding, and watching into one action.
shomer: Keeper, guard, watchman.
שֹׁמֵר
This branch turns the root’s action into a person who keeps watch.
mishmeret: Charge, watch, guard duty.
מִשְׁמֶרֶת
This branch names what is entrusted to someone’s keeping.
בָּנִי
Bani
GROWS FROM
בנה
banah
Build, establish.
Bani carries the building sense of banah. Beside the repeated “son of,” the name gives this lineage a building image: lives are joined into a structure that continues through time.
ALSO GROWS
banah: Build, establish.
בָּנָה
This is the root carried in Bani’s name.
binyan: Building, structure.
בִּנְיָן
This branch makes the root’s building sense into a structure, like a line held together across generations.
עַמְצִי
ʿAmtsî
GROWS FROM
אמץ
ʾāmats
Be strong, strengthen, make firm.
Amzi carries the root of strength and firmness. In this chain, strength is not an abstract quality; it arrives through a named life, connected to those before and after it.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāmats: Be strong, be firm.
אָמַץ
The root names the strength carried in Amzi’s name.
ʾimtsû: Be strong, take courage.
אִמְצוּ
This form shows the root as strength being called forth and carried.
THE PATTERN
What is received in one generation is carried into another through named relationships.
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.For he made a testimony stand in Jacob, and set instruction in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, to make them known to their children.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.THE THREAD
And the LORD God took Adam and set him down in the garden of Eden, to serve it and to guard it.Shamer echoes שמר (shamar), the root translated “keep” in this verse. The shared root links a name in this family line with the act of keeping what is entrusted.
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