What Does 1 Chronicles 1:6 Mean in the King James?

And the sons of Gomer; Ashchenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

1 Chronicles 1:6 · 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

Gomer’s name echoes “completion,” yet the verse immediately opens that name into three continuations.

THE MEANING

Here, Gomer does not stand alone: Ashchenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah extend the name into a lineage. Identity is held in the names that branch from a name. Even a name associated with an ending is followed by continuation.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

A person’s name disappears when that person is gone.

THE ROOT

גֹּמֶר

Gōmer

GROWS FROM

גמר

g-m-r

Complete, finish, bring to an end.

Gomer’s name shares the consonants ⁨ג־מ־ר⁩ (g-m-r) with the Hebrew verb for completing or finishing. That echo sits beside three names that continue his line; it is a root association, not a claim about the descendants’ destiny.

ALSO GROWS

gāmar: To finish or complete.

גָּמַר

This verb carries the root echo heard in Gomer’s name.

gōmēr: Completing; bringing to completion.

גֹּמֵר

Psalm 57:2 uses this form for what God “performeth,” making the name’s root echo explicit.

THE PATTERN

A lineage keeps identity visible by carrying names through a chain of descendants.

And the sons of Gomer; Ashkenaz, and Riphath, and Togarmah.

Genesis 10:3 · KJVThe same names appear in another genealogy, preserving Gomer’s line as a named link.

Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

Matthew 1:2 · KJVEach name leads into the next, making identity visible through successive generations.

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 chain of names carries identity across a long line of descent.

THE THREAD

I will cry unto God most high; unto God that performeth all things for me.

Psalm 57:2 · KJV

The Hebrew behind “performeth” uses ⁨גֹּמֵר⁩ (gōmēr, “completing; bringing to completion”), an echo of the root carried by Gomer’s name. Here that root meets the genealogy’s image of a name continuing through descendants.

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