What Does 1 Chronicles 7:34 Mean?
And the sons of Shamer were Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.
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And the sons of Shamer; Ahi, and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram.THE KEY
Shamer echoes the Hebrew root for keeping and guarding, so naming these four sons keeps them in view.
THE MEANING
Ahi, Rohgah, Jehubbah, and Aram stand in the verse through their relation to Shamer. His name echoes shamar, “to keep or guard,” making this list an act of keeping their names present.
THE ROOT
שֹׁמֵר
Shomer
GROWS FROM
שׁמר
sh-m-r
To keep, guard, or watch over.
Shamer is commonly understood as a form of shamar, “to keep or guard.” The root’s sense of keeping resonates with the verse’s list: speaking these names holds them in view.
ALSO GROWS
shamar: To keep, guard, or watch.
שָׁמַר
The verb makes explicit the keeping heard in Shamer’s name.
mishmeret: A charge, watch, or duty entrusted to someone.
מִשְׁמֶרֶת
This noun shows keeping as something held in care, echoing how the names are carried together in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Naming a generation keeps its line visible across generations.
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.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.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
The LORD watches over you from all harm; he watches over your living soul.The Hebrew word translated “preserve” comes from shamar, the same root echoed in Shamer’s name. Here, the root moves from a name that means keeper toward keeping as an action.
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