What Does 1 Chronicles 2:28 Mean in the King James?

And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur.

1 Chronicles 2:28 · 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

Knowing and willing generosity appear here as names within a family line, so ancestry carries meanings as well as relationships.

THE MEANING

This verse holds each life within a chain of kinship: Onam’s sons are named, then Shammai’s sons within that same line. Jada carries knowing, and Nadab carries willing generosity, keeping meanings alongside the relationships.

THE ROOT

יָדָע

Yādaʿ

GROWS FROM

ידע

y-d-ʿ

The root ⁨ידע⁩ (y-d-ʿ), yadaʿ, means to know, recognize, or perceive, knowing through encounter.

Jada carries the root of yadaʿ, “know” or “perceive.” The same root forms daʿat, “knowledge,” placing knowing inside the names of this family line as more than an abstract idea.

ALSO GROWS

Yadaʿ: To know, recognize, or perceive.

יָדַע

This verb shares the root in Jada’s name and can describe knowing through intimate encounter.

Daʿat: Knowledge or understanding.

דַּעַת

This noun shows how the root’s personal act of knowing also names knowledge itself.

נָדָב

Nādāb

GROWS FROM

נדב

n-d-b

The root ⁨נדב⁩ (n-d-b), nādab, means to volunteer, offer freely, or be willing and generous.

Nadab shares its root with words for willingness and freewill giving. In this genealogy, willing generosity is carried as a name within the family line.

ALSO GROWS

Nādîv: Willing, generous, or noble.

נָדִיב

This branch shows the root’s sense of a person freely disposed to give.

Nedāvāh: A freewill gift or offering.

נְדָבָה

This branch makes the root’s voluntary generosity concrete as something freely given.

THE PATTERN

A life is named within relationships, and the line carries identity across generations.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 5:1 · KJVThe verse begins a genealogy by naming a life within generations and relating it to its source.

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

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe opening names a life through the generations and relationships that lead to it.

Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

Luke 3:38 · KJVThe genealogy carries identity through a chain of named relationships.

THE THREAD

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Genesis 4:1 · KJV

Jada echoes the Hebrew root ⁨ידע⁩ (yadaʿ), translated “knew” here. In this verse, knowing is intimate encounter that brings forth a named life, opening the root carried in Jada’s name.

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