What Does 1 Chronicles 9:43 Mean?
And Moza brought forth Binea, and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.
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.
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King James Version
And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.THE KEY
Even this compressed genealogy holds two truths together: no life is self-originating, and no one in the chain is anonymous.
THE MEANING
Your life stands within generations of named lives. Each son is a distinct person and also the point through which the line continues.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
You are self-made and disconnected from every life before you.
THE ROOT
הוֹלִיד
holid
GROWS FROM
ילד
To bear or bring forth; in this form, to beget.
“brought forth” in this verse is holid. The Hebrew verb names an act of bringing forth, so the line is more than a pedigree label: it is life arriving through someone. Each named son marks both a distinct life and the continuation of the line.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child
יֶלֶד
The child is the one brought forth, making the relationship named by “begat” visible in the next generation.
moledet: Birth, kindred, or birthplace
מוֹלֶדֶת
This branch connects birth with the family and place from which a person comes.
רְפָיָה
Rephayah
GROWS FROM
רפא
To heal or restore; in this name, joined with Yah to mean “Yah has healed.”
The name Rephaiah places restoration within the line’s roll call: one of these generations carries the name “Yah has healed.” The name stands among the generations without the verse needing to explain it.
ALSO GROWS
rapha: To heal
רָפָא
This is the healing verb carried in Rephaiah’s name.
rophe: Healer
רֹפֵא
This related form names the one who heals, extending the root’s sense of restoration.
refu’ah: Healing
רְפוּאָה
This noun names healing itself, another branch of the root present in Rephaiah.
THE PATTERN
What one generation receives continues through those who carry it forward.
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 book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.And these things you heard from me among many witnesses, place beside steady people who will be able to teach others also.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 Hebrew root ילד (yalad, to bring forth or beget) appears in both verses. Genesis makes explicit what this compressed family line shows: each new name arrives within an inherited likeness and continues the chain.
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