What Does 1 Chronicles 2:21 Mean in the King James?

And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

1 Chronicles 2:21 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

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THE KEY

Segub is more than a name in the family line: its Hebrew roots carry the meaning “exalted,” which English leaves hidden.

THE MEANING

Your life sits within a line larger than its present moment. This verse holds Hezron’s age beside the birth of Segub, whose name means “exalted.” A name can carry meaning forward through generations.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Age does not mark the end of this family line: the verse places Hezron’s marriage at sixty and then records the birth of a son.

THE ROOT

שְׂגוּב

Segub

GROWS FROM

שגב

sagab

To be high, exalted, or inaccessible.

The name Segub carries the sense “exalted,” though English leaves it as an untranslated name. The same root also describes a high refuge, gathering elevation and shelter into the word-family behind this name.

ALSO GROWS

sagab: To be high, exalted, or inaccessible.

שָׂגַב

This verb gives the name its sense of being raised high.

misgav: A high place or refuge.

מִשְׂגָּב

This related noun shows how the root’s image of height can also suggest a place of refuge.

THE PATTERN

Scripture lets names carry a person’s nature or calling into the story.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:5 · KJVThe name Abraham carries the calling stated in the verse: father of many nations.

And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.

Genesis 32:28 · KJVThe new name Israel is tied to the nature of Jacob’s encounter and struggle.

And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

John 1:42 · KJVCephas carries a meaning, “a stone”, that the verse itself makes explicit.

THE THREAD

The lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day.

Isaiah 2:11 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “exalted” shares the root ⁨שגב⁩ (sagab) with Segub. Isaiah sharpens the name’s language of height: human loftiness falls, while the LORD alone remains exalted.

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