What Does 1 Chronicles 9:42 Mean?
And Ahaz brought forth Jarah, and Jarah brought forth Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri, and Zimri brought forth Moza.
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
And Ahaz begat Jarah; and Jarah begat Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begat Moza;THE KEY
The Hebrew root behind “begat” also gives the words for “child” and “generations,” so this line presents identity as life brought forth and carried onward.
THE MEANING
This line places each life within a succession of lives. Ahaz, Jarah, Alemeth, Azmaveth, Zimri, and Moza are linked by the repeated act of bringing forth. The verse speaks now of identity as something carried through relationships and generations.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This verse undoes the idea that a person is a self-contained beginning: each named life stands within a chain of lives that came before and continue after.
THE ROOT
וַיּוֹלֶד
wayyoled
GROWS FROM
ילד
y-l-d
To bear, beget, or bring forth.
“brought forth” in this verse is wayyoled. The verb translated “begat” shares its root with “child” and “generations.” The English repetition can sound like a bare list; the Hebrew root keeps the line grounded in life coming forth and continuing.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child
יֶלֶד
The child is named by the same root as the act of bringing forth.
toledot: Generations; accounts of descendants
תּוֹלְדוֹת
The word for generations grows from the same root, joining this act of begetting to the larger chain of a family.
אָחָז
ʾĀḥāz
GROWS FROM
אחז
ʾ-ḥ-z
To grasp, seize, or hold.
The name Ahaz carries the root of grasping or holding. That sense is still audible in the root’s other forms, preserving a concrete action inside a name that English presents as a label.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāḥaz: He grasped or held
אָחַז
This verb makes the name’s underlying action explicit.
ʾaḥuzzāh: Possession; holding
אֲחֻזָּה
This noun shows the same root describing what is held or possessed.
מוֹצָא
Mōṣāʾ
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ṣ-ʾ
To go out or come forth.
Moza is commonly connected with the root for going forth. Its form can name an outlet or point of departure, giving the final name in the line a sense of emergence.
ALSO GROWS
yāṣāʾ: To go out or come forth
יָצָא
This verb supplies the root sense carried in the name Moza.
mōṣāʾ: An outlet, point of departure, or source
מוֹצָא
This noun shows how the root can describe where something comes forth.
THE PATTERN
Scripture presents human identity and what it carries as continuity transmitted from one generation to the next.
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.So that the generation that follows might know them, the children yet to be born, who will rise and recount them to their children.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.The same Hebrew root, ילד (yalad, to bear or bring forth), lies beneath “begat” here and in Genesis. Genesis makes the continuity explicit: a son comes forth in his father’s likeness, revealing what the repeated verb carries through a line of names.
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