What Does 1 Chronicles 2:24 Mean in the King James?
And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.
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 Hebrew verb for “bare” shares its root with both “child” and “generations,” so birth here already contains the continuation of a line.
THE MEANING
Hezron’s death stands beside Abiah’s birth of Ashhur, who becomes father of Tekoa; neither fact cancels the other. The verse speaks now wherever an ending seems to be the whole story: what has ended is real, yet continuation can still emerge.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a death makes every continuation impossible.
THE ROOT
וַתֵּלֶד
vattēled
GROWS FROM
ילד
to bear, beget, bring forth
“bare” in this verse is vattēled. וַתֵּלֶד (vattēled, “she bore”) grows from ילד (yalad, “to bear or beget”), the same root heard in יֶלֶד (yeled, “child”) and תּוֹלְדוֹת (toledot, “generations”). Abiah’s name, אֲבִיָּה (Aviyyah, “Yah is my father”), brings fatherhood into the line while the verse names her as the one who bears Ashhur.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: child; one born
יֶלֶד
The root names both the act of bearing and the child brought forth.
toledot: generations; descendants
תּוֹלְדוֹת
The same root carries birth forward into the line of generations that Ashhur continues.
THE PATTERN
Scripture can place new life or fruit beside death, allowing continuation without denying loss.
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:THE THREAD
And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.“Bare” in both verses translates a form of ילד (yalad, “to bear or beget”). In Genesis, the verse names Abel’s death and then another seed; here, Hezron’s death stands beside Abiah’s bearing of Ashhur.
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