What Does 1 Chronicles 7:24 Mean?
And his daughter was Sheerah, who built the lower Bethhoron, and the upper, and Uzzensheerah.
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 his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)THE KEY
A genealogy opens into a map: Sherah is named not only as a daughter, but as the builder of three places.
THE MEANING
The verse names Sherah as an active builder of three places, including both the lower and upper Beth-horon. Her place in a family line does not exhaust what the verse says about her; it also names what she establishes.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the assumption that a woman in a genealogy is only a link in a family line: Sherah is explicitly named as the builder.
THE ROOT
בָּנָה
banah
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
to build, establish
The Hebrew verb gives Sherah the active role of builder, and one verb reaches across three named places. The same root can name a structure being built, revealing that the word holds both the act of building and what that act establishes.
ALSO GROWS
boneh: builder, one who builds
בֹּנֶה
This active form echoes the verse’s focus on Sherah as the one doing the building.
mivneh: structure, building
מִבְנֶה
This form names what building brings into being, linking Sherah’s action to the places the verse names.
nivneh: is built
נִבְנָה
This form shows the same root from the side of what is established through building.
THE PATTERN
Building gives life a place to take form, dwell, and endure.
And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from Adam, he built into a woman, and brought her to Adam.Every wise woman builds her house, but folly tears it down with her hands.You also, as living stones, are built up into a house of breath, a set-apart priesthood, to carry up sacrifices of breath, well received by God through Jesus, the Anointed One.THE THREAD
Every wise woman builds her house, but folly tears it down with her hands.Proverbs names a wise woman as the builder of her house, using the same Hebrew root בנה (banah, build) that describes Sherah’s work. Sherah’s three places make that same constructive agency visible across a wider landscape.
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