What Does 1 Chronicles 7:37 Mean?

Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

1 Chronicles 7:37 · SDV

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Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

THE KEY

Ithran carries the root sense of what remains or is gained, so even this bare genealogy speaks through more than names alone.

THE MEANING

Six people stand before you as names rather than as a plot; their sequence makes ancestry visible without collapsing them into an anonymous group. Ithran’s name is commonly linked with the sense of what remains or is in surplus.

THE ROOT

יִתְרָן

Yitrān

GROWS FROM

יתר

y-t-r

To remain, be left over, exceed, or be abundant.

Ithran is commonly connected with ⁨יתר⁩, the language of remaining or exceeding. Its branches include “more” and “advantage,” so a name rendered only as a sound can also carry the sense of what is left over or gained.

ALSO GROWS

yoter: More; beyond; remaining.

יוֹתֵר

This form makes the root’s sense of exceeding audible beside Ithran’s name.

yitron: Surplus; advantage; profit.

יִתְרוֹן

Ecclesiastes uses this noun for “profit,” giving the name’s root a sense of what remains or is gained.

THE PATTERN

A family line becomes visible through particular names rather than an anonymous claim of descent.

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.

Genesis 5:1 · SDVThe verse frames a lineage as a record of named generations.

Now these are the births of Perez. Perez brought forth Hezron.

Ruth 4:18 · SDVThe line advances through specific names, as it does in this verse.

The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.

Matthew 1:1 · SDVThe verse makes descent visible through the names that connect one generation to another.

THE THREAD

What remains to a man from all the toil that he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:3 · SDV

The Hebrew word translated “profit” is yitron (⁨יִתְרוֹן⁩), from the same root ⁨יתר⁩ commonly linked with Ithran. The name’s language of surplus and what remains opens the question of what human labor actually leaves behind.

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