What Does 1 Chronicles 6:5 Mean?
And Abishua brought forth Bukki, and Bukki brought forth Uzzi.
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
And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,THE KEY
The repeated word “begat” turns this genealogy from a list of names into a line of life continually brought forth.
THE MEANING
Your life belongs to a chain of lives received and carried forward. What comes before you becomes part of what can come after you; the verse makes that continuity visible in two brief acts of begetting.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a life is self-originating or isolated: you are part of a line that began before you and continues beyond you.
THE ROOT
הוֹלִיד
hōlîd
GROWS FROM
ילד
To bear, bring forth, or cause to be born.
The Hebrew root ילד connects begetting with a child and with generations: an action, a person, and a lineage share one seed. English separates them, but here the repeated verb shows continuity as life actively brought forth.
ALSO GROWS
yalad: To bear or give birth
יָלַד
This is the root verb beneath “begat,” naming the act that carries life forward.
yeled: Child
יֶלֶד
The child is not separate from the act of begetting; both grow from the same root.
toledot: Generations, descendants, or origins
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This word for generations links the verse’s repeated begetting to the unfolding lineage it records.
THE PATTERN
Life is carried forward through a chain of giving rise to those who come after.
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.Abraham brought forth Isaac, and Isaac brought forth Jacob, and Jacob brought forth Judah and his brothers.THE THREAD
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 uses the same Hebrew root, ילד (yalad), for Adam’s begetting. There, the verse names likeness passing through a generation; here, the root repeats across two successive links.
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