What Does 1 Chronicles 2:47 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Jahdai; Regem, and Jotham, and Geshan, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.
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
Pelet carries the word for escape inside this line of descent, so the genealogy holds release alongside belonging.
THE MEANING
This verse gathers six names under one line of descent. One of them, Pelet, is linked to the Hebrew root for escape and deliverance, letting release sit within the story of belonging.
THE ROOT
פֶּלֶט
Pelet
GROWS FROM
פלט
To escape, slip away, or survive.
Pelet is linked to פלט, the root of escape and deliverance. English leaves the name opaque, while the Hebrew lets the line carry a word for getting free within its list of descendants.
ALSO GROWS
pālîṭ: A survivor or escapee.
פָּלִיט
This branch names the one who gets out, giving Pelet’s root the shape of a person who survives.
pəlêṭāh: Escape, deliverance, or a remnant that escapes.
פְּלֵיטָה
This branch shows the root can name both the act of escape and those who remain after danger.
THE PATTERN
The root פלט holds escape together with what survives and remains after danger.
And they shall cover the face of the earth, that one cannot be able to see the earth: and they shall eat the residue of that which is escaped, which remaineth unto you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which groweth for you out of the field:And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.THE THREAD
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the LORD hath said, and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call.Joel’s word for “deliverance” is פְּלֵיטָה (pəlêṭāh), from the same root as Pelet. The name in this genealogy opens onto a root that also speaks of escape and the remnant that remains.
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