What Does 1 Chronicles 11:30 Mean in the King James?

Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,

1 Chronicles 11:30 · 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

Here, a son is more than a family label: the word carries the image of a life building forward through relation.

THE MEANING

Your identity is not an isolated label: this verse names Heled through Baanah and his place. The word for son also carries a building image, so life appears as something continued through connection.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie that your life is self-made and self-contained loosens here: Heled is named through his father and his place.

THE ROOT

בֵּן

ben

GROWS FROM

בנה

b-n-h

Build, establish

The Hebrew word for son, ben, is linked with banah, “to build.” Heled is named as Baanah’s son, so the line carries an image of life extending through connection.

ALSO GROWS

banah: Build, establish

בָּנָה

The shared seed links sonship with building what continues beyond oneself.

binyan: Building, structure

בִּנְיָן

This branch makes the building image concrete: a life belongs within a structure of kinship.

THE PATTERN

Scripture carries a person’s name forward by placing it within a line of kinship.

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:3 · KJVSeth is named as a son who carries his father’s likeness forward.

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Ruth 4:17 · KJVObed’s name enters a chain of kinship that continues through Jesse to David.

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

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe opening line places a name inside the generations that carry it forward.

THE THREAD

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:3 · KJV

Both verses name a son, ben, from the building root ⁨בנה⁩ (b-n-h). Genesis makes the continuation visible in the son bearing his father’s likeness; here, Heled’s name is carried within his father Baanah’s.

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