What Does 1 Chronicles 1:7 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Javan; Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
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
The list makes a family line visible as a structure: each name opens another branch without erasing the shared source.
THE MEANING
You see one line of descent widening into four distinct names. The verse holds shared origin and distinct branches in the same frame, so each branch keeps its own name while remaining connected to the line.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse undoes the idea that distinct names must have unrelated origins: it places all four within Javan’s line.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
bənê
GROWS FROM
בנה
to build, build up
“sons” in this verse is bənê. The noun בֵּן (ben, “son”) is traditionally associated with בנה (banah, “to build”), though the etymological link is not certain. Heard alongside “build,” the genealogy presents descent as a structure that continues through Javan’s four named branches.
ALSO GROWS
banah: to build
בָּנָה
This verb gives the family line an architectural echo: generations build on the line before them.
binyan: building, structure
בִּנְיָן
This noun makes the structural image explicit: the names form branches within one continuing line.
THE PATTERN
A genealogy holds shared origin and distinct branches together, giving each descendant a name within the larger line.
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;THE THREAD
The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.Here Javan is one branch among Japheth’s sons; in 1 Chronicles 1:7, Javan’s own branch opens into four names. The repeated structure shows a name can be both a descendant in one line and the source of another.
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