What Does 1 Chronicles 8:10 Mean?
And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads of the fathers.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
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King James Version
And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Mirma. These were his sons, heads of the fathers.THE KEY
These sons are not only descendants; they are the heads through whom their fathers’ households continue.
THE MEANING
A family line is more than ancestry on a page: it takes shape through living people who carry its direction. Here, the sons are also the heads of the fathers’ households, so what came before remains active in those who follow.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This undoes the idea that a family line is only a record of the past: its descendants also carry its direction in the present.
THE ROOT
רָאשִׁים
rashim
GROWS FROM
ראש
r-ʾ-sh
Head; top; chief; beginning.
English “heads” can sound only like a title, but רֹאשׁ (rosh, head) keeps the image of what is at the top and leads. The same root reaches רֵאשִׁית (reshit, beginning), so the sons are presented as both leaders of the household and the point from which its next chapter begins.
ALSO GROWS
rosh: Head; chief.
רֹאשׁ
This is the singular word behind “heads,” keeping the image of leadership rooted in the head of a body.
reshit: Beginning; first part.
רֵאשִׁית
This branch extends the same root toward what comes first, linking household leadership with the beginning of what follows.
בָּנִים
banim
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
Build; build up.
בָּנִים (banim, sons) carries an association with בָּנָה (banah, to build): descendants are part of how a household is built forward. Beside “heads,” that image makes the line active, the ones who continue the household also take up its direction.
ALSO GROWS
banah: To build.
בָּנָה
The related verb gives “sons” a building image: descendants help the household take shape across generations.
ben: Son.
בֵּן
This singular form names the descendant through whom the family line continues.
THE PATTERN
A family line carries its shape and future forward through its descendants.
These are the heads of their fathers' houses. The sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel, were Hanoch, and Pallu, Hezron, and Carmi. These are the families of Reuben.Look, children are the LORD's portion; and the fruit of the womb is a wage.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And Moses chose men of strength out of all Israel, and set them as heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.“Heads” here uses the same Hebrew word, רָאשִׁים (rashim, heads), and makes its leadership sense plain. In 1 Chronicles, the sons are named as heads of their fathers’ households: descendants become the living points through which the family line is carried forward.
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