What Does 1 Chronicles 1:22 Mean in the King James?
And Ebal, and Abimael, and Sheba,
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
A name can carry a claim of belonging even when the verse gives no biography.
THE MEANING
Ebal, Abimael, and Sheba remain within Joktan’s line, though their lives are not narrated here. Abimael’s name is commonly read as “my father is God,” carrying a relationship inside this sparse record.
THE ROOT
אֲבִימָאֵל
ʾAvimaʾel
GROWS FROM
אב
אָב (av, father); in the name, אֲבִי (avi, my father) joins אֵל (El, God).
Abimael is commonly understood as “my father is God.” In a line that names people without telling their stories, the name itself carries a compact claim of relationship and belonging.
ALSO GROWS
av: Father; the kinship word at the base of the name’s first element.
אָב
It makes Abimael’s name begin with a relationship.
avi: My father; the possessive form of the kinship word.
אֲבִי
This is the opening element in the common reading of Abimael’s name.
avot: Fathers, forebears, ancestors.
אָבוֹת
This branch names the generational line in which the verse places Abimael.
THE PATTERN
Genealogies carry identities forward by naming links in a line, even when they leave the lives behind those names unexpanded.
And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; because in his days the earth was divided: and his brother’s name was Joktan.Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.THE THREAD
And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,Genesis 10:28 carries the same three names in the same sequence, though the KJV renders the first as Obal there and Ebal here. The parallel shows this name sequence as a preserved link in the genealogy.
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