What Does 1 Chronicles 3:1 Mean in the King James?

Now these were the sons of David, which were born unto him in Hebron; the firstborn Amnon, of Ahinoam the Jezreelitess; the second Daniel, of Abigail the Carmelitess:

1 Chronicles 3:1 · KJV

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THE KEY

The verse locates David’s sons’ births in Hebron, a name rooted in joining: this lineage begins within relationship.

THE MEANING

Your life is not sealed off from others: what comes through you enters a chain of relationship and generations. “Born” belongs to the same Hebrew root family as “child” and “generations,” while Hebron carries the root of joining; the record holds birth, belonging, and continuity together before naming each son. David (⁨דָּוִד⁩, Dawid, “beloved”) and Daniel (⁨דָּנִיֵּאל⁩, Daniyyel, “God is my judge”) each carry a nature within their name.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that your life begins and ends with you gives way before a lineage that names the people and places through which each child arrives.

THE ROOT

נוֹלְדוּ

noldu

GROWS FROM

ילד

y-l-d

To give birth or beget.

English can make “born” sound like a finished event, separate from the person who is born and the generations that follow. The Hebrew root ties birth, child, and lineage together: one birth opens into a continuing family line.

ALSO GROWS

yeled: Child

יֶלֶד

The child and the act of being born share one root, keeping the person and the event of birth connected.

toledot: Generations; a record of descent

תּוֹלְדוֹת

This branch carries the root from a birth into the generations that follow, the very shape of the genealogy.

חֶבְרוֹן

Ḥevron

GROWS FROM

חבר

ḥ-b-r

To join, connect, or associate.

“Hebron” in this verse is Ḥevron. The place-name comes from the root of joining. Before the verse distinguishes the sons by name, it places their births within a word-family of connection.

ALSO GROWS

ḥaver: Companion; associate

חָבֵר

A companion is joined to another, echoing the relationships named throughout this family record.

ḥibbur: Connection; joining

חִבּוּר

This branch makes the name’s joining-root visible in the place where the verse locates these births.

THE PATTERN

A life continues through births that carry one generation into another.

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 5:3 · KJVThe verse traces a life forward through the birth of a named child, as this genealogy does.

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Psalm 127:3 · KJVChildren appear as the fruit and inheritance of life, matching this verse’s record of sons and their mothers.

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

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThis opening names a lineage through David and Abraham, showing a life carried onward through generations.

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 5:3 · KJV

“Begat” in Genesis and “born” here come from the same Hebrew root ⁨ילד⁩ (yalad, “give birth or beget”), holding both sides of birth in one word-family. Genesis names the child Seth; Chronicles extends that birth-language into a continuing family line.

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