What Does 1 Chronicles 1:24 Mean in the King James?

Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,

1 Chronicles 1:24 · KJV

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

Shem is both a person’s name and the Hebrew word for “name,” making identity itself the first link passed forward.

THE MEANING

This line places you among lives whose names and natures reach beyond a single lifetime. Its final name, Shelah, shares the Hebrew form of shalach, “send forth,” so inheritance appears as something carried forward.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Your life begins entirely with you.

THE ROOT

שָׁלַח

shalach

GROWS FROM

שלח

shalach

To send forth, send away, or release.

Shelah is written with the same consonants as shalach, “send forth.” That places the idea of sending beside this line of descent: what is carried through generations continues by moving onward.

ALSO GROWS

shaluach: Sent; commissioned.

שָׁלוּחַ

The word gives the line’s onward movement a human shape: what is sent continues beyond the one who sends it.

shilleach: Sent away; released.

שִׁלֵּחַ

This form brings release into the root’s sense of sending, echoing how a line moves forward by letting what it carries go onward.

THE PATTERN

A life enters the present through a named line that carries identity forward.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 5:1 · KJVThe verse frames human life as a sequence of generations, with each name belonging to a line that continues.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe opening names a life through the line that reaches it, making inheritance part of its identity.

Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

Luke 3:38 · KJVThe closing names carry the line back through generations, showing identity as something received and passed on.

THE THREAD

Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.

1 Samuel 25:25 · KJV

Shem is the Hebrew word for “name,” so the first name in this line is also the word for the nature carried by a name. This verse makes that link explicit: the name and the named belong together.

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