What Does 1 Chronicles 3:11 Mean in the King James?

Joram his son, Ahaziah his son, Joash his son,

1 Chronicles 3:11 · 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 repeated “his son” turns a royal genealogy into a house being built through named lives.

THE MEANING

Continuity reaches you through particular lives, each carrying a line forward. Joram (⁨יוֹרָם⁩, Yoram) means “YHWH is exalted”; Ahaziah (⁨אֲחַזְיָהוּ⁩, Ahazyahu) means “YHWH has grasped or held”; Joash (⁨יוֹאָשׁ⁩, Yoash) is commonly understood as “YHWH has given.” The repeated “his son” makes inheritance a living chain rather than an abstraction.

THE ROOT

בֵּן

ben

GROWS FROM

בנה

banah

build

Ben (⁨בֵּן⁩, ben; “son”) is traditionally connected with banah (⁨בָּנָה⁩, banah; “build”), picturing a family as a structure raised through descendants. The repeated “his son” makes this line feel like a house built person by person.

ALSO GROWS

banah: build

בָּנָה

The verb shares the root and brings the image of building into the repeated succession.

mivneh: structure, building

מִבְנֶה

This noun from the same root makes the family line read as a structure formed through successive lives.

יוֹרָם

Yoram

GROWS FROM

רום

rum

rise, be high

“Joram” in this verse is Yoram. Yoram joins a form of the divine name to rum (⁨רוּם⁩, rum; “rise, be high”) and is read as “YHWH is exalted.” The name places exaltation inside the line of succession.

ALSO GROWS

rum: rise, be high

רוּם

This verb supplies the root sense carried in Yoram’s name.

ram: high, exalted

רָם

This related form shows the state of being raised or high that the name evokes.

אֲחַזְיָהוּ

Ahazyahu

GROWS FROM

אחז

ahaz

grasp, hold

Ahaziah combines the root ⁨אחז⁩ (ahaz; “grasp, hold”) with a form of the divine name, and is often read as “YHWH has held.” The name makes holding part of the same chain whose previous name speaks of exaltation.

ALSO GROWS

ahaz: grasped, held

אָחַז

This verb is the root action inside Ahaziah’s name.

ahuzzah: possession, holding

אֲחֻזָּה

This noun from the same root gives the sense of something held or kept.

THE PATTERN

A lineage becomes visible as one named life carries another forward.

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 son is described as carrying Adam’s likeness, so descent transmits more than a name.

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Ruth 4:17 · KJVObed’s named birth carries Naomi’s family story forward through Jesse and David.

And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;

Matthew 1:8 · KJVThe genealogy makes continuity visible by naming successive 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

Here, a son carries his father’s likeness and receives a name, making the transmission in “his son” visible. Together, the verses show a lineage as continuity carried through particular, named lives.

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