What Does 1 Chronicles 2:9 Mean in the King James?
The sons also of Hezron, that were born unto him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.
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 names are joined by the word “born”: this verse records lives brought forth, not names standing alone.
THE MEANING
Your life, too, arrives through lives before you; what is born through you extends beyond you. The names remain distinct, yet the verse joins them in a line of birth.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you begin with yourself: your life enters a line it did not start.
THE ROOT
נוֹלְדוּ
nōldû
GROWS FROM
ילד
ילד (y-l-d; yālad): to bear, beget, bring forth.
The verse introduces these names through the verb of being born, so they appear as lives brought forth from Hezron, not as isolated entries. The same root names both the act of bearing and the child who is born, holding the source and its result together.
ALSO GROWS
yālad: To give birth or bring forth.
יָלַד
It names the act behind the verse’s “were born,” making the relation between Hezron and his sons explicit.
yeled: A child or boy.
יֶלֶד
It names the life that comes forth, joining the root’s act of bearing to the person born.
THE PATTERN
Life is carried forward through birth and inheritance, so each name enters a line rather than standing alone.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.THE THREAD
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:Genesis uses the same Hebrew root ילד in וַיּוֹלֶד (wayyoled, “begat”), the active counterpart to נוֹלְדוּ (nōldû, “were born”) here. One root holds both sides of the line together: one generation bears, another is born.
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