What Does Exodus 6:21 Mean?
And the sons of Izehar were Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
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 the sons of Izhar; Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.THE KEY
Even in a bare genealogy, Zichri’s name carries the root of remembrance into the line being recorded.
THE MEANING
This line gives each person a name that still bears meaning when read aloud. Izhar is associated with fresh oil and brightness; Zichri carries the language of remembering. The record keeps particular lives from collapsing into an anonymous chain.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The names in a genealogy are only labels, with no meaning carried forward.
THE ROOT
זִכְרִי
Zikrī
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
Remember; call to mind.
English presents Zichri as a name without its audible connection to remembering. The same root forms the word for a memorial, so the name carries remembrance into a genealogy that records a line across generations.
ALSO GROWS
zakar: To remember; to call to mind.
זָכַר
This is the root carried by Zichri’s name.
zeker: Remembrance; memorial.
זֵכֶר
This branch joins a name to what remains in memory, as in Exodus 3:15.
יִצְהָר
Yitshar
GROWS FROM
צהר
ṣ-h-r
Shine; be bright.
English leaves Izhar as a proper name, but Hebrew associates it with fresh oil and the root of brightness. A vivid image of brightness sits inside what looks like a bare roster.
ALSO GROWS
yitshar: Fresh oil.
יִצְהָר
Izhar’s name is associated with this word, bringing the image of oil into the list.
ṣohorayim: Noon; midday.
צָהֳרַיִם
This branch names the bright high point of day and echoes the root’s sense of shining.
THE PATTERN
A name or life can continue to be remembered beyond its first generation.
God also said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name for the ages, and this is my remembrance to all generations.For he does not slip for the ages; the aligned one is in remembrance of the ages.By trust Abel brought near to God a fuller offering than Cain, and through it he received witness that he was aligned, God bearing witness to his gifts. And through it, though dead, he still speaks.THE THREAD
God also said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name for the ages, and this is my remembrance to all generations.Zichri carries the root zakar (זָכַר, “remember”). Exodus 3:15 uses that same root for “memorial” and joins a name to generations, making remembrance resonate inside this lineage.
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