What Does 1 Chronicles 8:36 Mean?
And Ahaz brought forth Jehoadah; and Jehoadah brought forth Alemeth, Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri brought forth Moza.
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King James Version
And Ahaz begat Jehoadah; and Jehoadah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza,THE KEY
The repeated Hebrew word for “begat” means “bring forth,” and the line ends with Moza, a name associated with “going forth”: birth itself is a chain of emergence.
THE MEANING
You meet life here as something received and carried forward: each name is brought forth through another, then becomes part of the next link. The final name, Moza, carries the sense of going forth, leaving the line opening outward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a life stands alone or begins with itself; each name arrives through a prior life.
THE ROOT
הוֹלִיד
hōlîd
GROWS FROM
ילד
y-l-d
to bear, give birth, bring forth
“brought forth” in this verse is hōlîd. English “begat” can sound like a genealogical label, but the Hebrew repeats a causative form of yalad: one life brings another into being. The line becomes a chain of emergence, with each name received and then placed as a source in the next link.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: child
יֶלֶד
A child is the life brought forth, so each name in the line belongs to someone who has arrived through another.
toledot: generations, descendants, or the account that grows from them
תּוֹלְדוֹת
The same root expands from an individual birth into the generations and story that grow out of births.
מוֹצָא
Mōṣāʾ
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ṣ-ʾ
to go out, emerge
“Moza, “going forth”” in this verse is Mōṣāʾ. Moza is associated with the Hebrew word for a going forth, from yatsa, “to go out.” Beside holid, “bring forth,” the name gives the verse a quiet echo between being born and emerging.
ALSO GROWS
yatsa: to go out, emerge
יָצָא
This root gives Moza its sense of movement outward from a point of origin.
motsa: a going forth, outlet, or point of departure
מוֹצָא
The name echoes the emergence already carried by the repeated word “begat.”
THE PATTERN
Life is shown as received through another and carried forward through being brought forth.
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.Abraham brought forth Isaac, and Isaac brought forth Jacob, and Jacob brought forth Judah and his brothers.Who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of a man, but of God.THE THREAD
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.This verse uses the same Hebrew root ילד (yalad, “bring forth”) behind “begat.” Genesis makes explicit what the genealogy compresses: a child carries the image of the one who brings him forth, so the chain of names also carries received likeness.
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