What Does 1 Chronicles 2:8 Mean in the King James?

And the sons of Ethan; Azariah.

1 Chronicles 2:8 · 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

The genealogy binds endurance, Ethan (⁨אֵיתָן⁩, ʾÊṯān, “enduring”), to help received, Azariah (⁨עֲזַרְיָה⁩, ʿAzaryāh, “Yah has helped”).

THE MEANING

This verse gives you a line where endurance stands beside aid received: Ethan (⁨אֵיתָן⁩, ʾÊṯān, “enduring”) and Azariah (⁨עֲזַרְיָה⁩, ʿAzaryāh, “Yah has helped”). Help becomes part of identity, something carried forward through a line.

THE ROOT

עֲזַרְיָה

ʿAzaryāh

GROWS FROM

עזר

ʿ-z-r

To help, support, or come to someone’s aid.

Azariah joins ⁨עזר⁩ (ʿ-z-r, “help”) to ⁨יָהּ⁩ (Yāh, short form of the LORD’s name), giving the name the sense “Yah has helped.” The help-root names both the aid received and the helper who gives it, making support part of the name’s nature.

ALSO GROWS

ʿēzer: Help; helper

עֵזֶר

The noun shows help as a presence that supports, giving the name’s claim a personal shape.

ʿezrāh: Help; assistance

עֶזְרָה

This branch makes the support itself visible: the help carried in Azariah’s name can be received and experienced.

THE PATTERN

Scripture uses names to carry God’s response into a person’s identity.

And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.

Genesis 16:11 · KJVIshmael’s name preserves the LORD’s hearing of Hagar’s affliction.

Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.

1 Samuel 1:20 · KJVSamuel’s name carries Hannah’s request to the LORD into his identity.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe name Jesus carries the work of delivering his people.

THE THREAD

My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:2 · KJV

Azariah joins ⁨עזר⁩ (ʿ-z-r, “help”) to ⁨יָהּ⁩ (Yāh, short form of the LORD’s name), so its name says what this psalm says as a sentence: help comes from the LORD. The psalm places that help alongside the maker of heaven and earth.

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