What Does 1 Chronicles 7:12 Mean?
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.
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
Shuppim also, and Huppim, the children of Ir, and Hushim, the sons of Aher.THE KEY
The name Aher (אַחֵר, ʾaḥēr, “another”) makes the verse’s quiet point: the “other” still has a place in the lineage.
THE MEANING
Names make a place in a lineage visible, and this verse holds that visibility in a single line. Aher means “another,” and his sons are included among those named. A life can belong to a larger story even when only a few words preserve it.
THE ROOT
אַחֵר
ʾaḥēr
GROWS FROM
אחר
ʾ-ḥ-r
To be behind or after; by extension, other or another.
Aher carries the sense of “another,” rather than being only an opaque label. The verse places the sons of the one so named within the lineage it records.
ALSO GROWS
ʾaḥēr: Other; another.
אַחֵר
This is the name-form in the verse, keeping its sense of otherness audible.
ʾaḥărê: After; behind.
אַחֲרֵי
The same root can mark what follows, giving Aher a relational sense within the line of names.
בְּנֵי
bĕnê
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
To build or establish.
“children” in this verse is bĕnê. The word for sons echoes the Hebrew verb for building, joining descendants with the making of a household. Here that building appears as a sequence of names that keeps a lineage visible.
ALSO GROWS
bēn: Son.
בֵּן
The singular form sits behind the verse’s plural “sons,” linking family descent with the language of building.
bānāh: To build; he built.
בָּנָה
This verb shares the root and reveals the building image carried by the word for sons.
THE PATTERN
A genealogy makes a people’s continuity legible by naming the links through which life continues.
This is the book of the births of Adam. In the day that God created the ground-being, in the likeness of God he made him.Now these are the births of Perez. Perez brought forth Hezron.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And Sarai said to Abram, Behold, the LORD has held me shut from bearing. Go in, I pray you, to my handmaid. Perhaps I may be built through her. And Abram heard and responded to the voice of Sarai.Genesis 16:2 uses a form of בָּנָה (bānāh, “to build”) in the phrase “obtain children.” That shared root lets the sons named here carry the image of a lineage being built through generations.
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