What Does 1 Chronicles 7:26 Mean?
Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,
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
Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama his son,THE KEY
The repeated word “son” is linked to the Hebrew root for “build,” so this genealogy pictures continuity as something built link by link.
THE MEANING
“His son” repeats three times, carrying a line forward name by name. Its final name, Elishama, means “God has heard,” placing hearing within the meaning this verse carries into the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A list of names is merely bookkeeping and carries no living meaning.
THE ROOT
בְּנוֹ
beno
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
Build, establish.
The Hebrew word ben, “son,” is traditionally linked to banah, “build.” Repeated three times, “his son” lets the line read as something built link by link, each name carrying continuity forward.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son.
בֵּן
This is the core family word repeated through the verse.
banah: Build.
בָּנָה
Its link to ben opens a building sense beneath the language of descent.
binyan: Building, structure.
בִּנְיָן
It shows the wider root’s language of what is formed and established.
אֱלִישָׁמָע
ʾElishamaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
sh-m-ʿ
Hear, listen, respond.
Elishama joins El, “God,” with the root שמע, “hear.” That root also appears in shema, “hear and respond,” so the name carries hearing as more than receiving sound: it opens toward an answer.
ALSO GROWS
shemaʿ: Hear and respond.
שְׁמַע
It makes the hearing in Elishama active and relational.
shemuʿah: Report, news; something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
It shows how hearing can become something carried and shared.
shomeaʿ: One who hears; hearing.
שֹׁמֵעַ
It brings the root’s action into the one who listens.
THE PATTERN
Names carry identity and meaning forward through generations.
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.One generation shouts of your works to another, and sets forth your strong deeds.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak, for your servant hears and responds.Elishama means “God has heard,” with שמע (shamaʿ) at its center. Samuel’s “heareth” carries the same root, turning the name’s claim into a living exchange: hearing opens into an answer.
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