What Does 1 Chronicles 1:9 Mean in the King James?

And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabta, and Raamah, and Sabtecha. And the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan.

1 Chronicles 1:9 · 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

Raamah, whose name carries the sense of thunder, is the hinge where this family line branches into another generation.

THE MEANING

This verse holds a lineage as named branches: Cush’s descendants include Raamah, whose own line continues through Sheba and Dedan. Raamah’s name carries the sound of thunder, making the hinge of the genealogy more than an empty label.

THE ROOT

רַעְמָה

Raʿamah

GROWS FROM

רעם

r-ʿ-m

To thunder, rumble, or roar.

Raamah carries the thunder-root r-ʿ-m, so the name holds a sound of force rather than serving only as a label. The genealogy places Raamah at a branching point, with the line continuing through two named descendants.

ALSO GROWS

raʿam: Thunder; rumbling.

רַעַם

The noun preserves the storm sound at the root of Raamah’s name.

hirʿim: To make thunder; to thunder.

הִרְעִים

This verb makes the same root active, while the verse shows Raamah’s line continuing into another branch.

THE PATTERN

Scripture traces persons and peoples as branches from named origins, linking each line to a wider family story.

And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

Genesis 25:3 · KJVDedan, like Raamah here, becomes a point from which another generation is named.

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

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe verse presents identity through a line of named ancestors, extending across generations.

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;

Acts 17:26 · KJVThe shared human line places every people within a larger origin and branching story.

THE THREAD

Now the sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bare Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah. And the sons of Jokshan; Sheba, and Dedan.

1 Chronicles 1:32 · KJV

Sheba and Dedan recur under Jokshan in another branch, as well as here under Raamah. The repeated names make the genealogy’s branching structure visible: those names appear at more than one point in the family map.

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