What Does 1 Chronicles 3:13 Mean in the King James?
Ahaz his son, Hezekiah his son, Manasseh his son,
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
These three names compress a movement from grasping, through YHWH’s strengthening, to the release of what memory holds.
THE MEANING
This verse places the reader in a line where identity moves through named relationships: what is held, strength that is received, and what can be released from memory. No single name exhausts the generations that follow.
THE ROOT
מְנַשֶּׁה
Mənashsheh
GROWS FROM
נשה
n-sh-h
Forget; in its causative form, make forget.
“Manasseh” in this verse is Mənashsheh. English leaves this as a name, while Hebrew connects it to the act of causing forgetting. In Joseph’s naming, that release reaches his toil and his father’s house, so inheritance can include a loosening of the past’s hold.
ALSO GROWS
nashani: “He has made me forget.”
נַשַּׁנִי
This is the verb Joseph uses when he explains the name Manasseh; the name carries the action into the family line.
Mənashsheh: Manasseh; “causing to forget.”
מְנַשֶּׁה
The name itself preserves the root’s action, making forgetting part of the identity recorded here.
אָחָז
ʾĀḥāz
GROWS FROM
אחז
ʾ-ḥ-z
Grasp, seize, take hold.
“Ahaz” in this verse is ʾĀḥāz. The name’s root describes taking hold, and a related form can describe a possession or holding. This gives the line an image of what is seized and retained, which contrasts with Manasseh’s root of forgetting.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāḥaz: He grasped or took hold.
אָחַז
The verb exposes the action carried in the name Ahaz.
ʾăḥuzzāh: Possession, holding, or property.
אֲחֻזָּה
The root moves from the act of grasping to what remains held.
חִזְקִיָּהוּ
Ḥizqiyyāhû
GROWS FROM
חזק
ḥ-z-q
Be strong; strengthen.
“Hezekiah” in this verse is Ḥizqiyyāhû. The name joins the root of strength to the divine name YHWH: “YHWH strengthens.” The root can describe strength as a condition and strengthening as an action, so the name holds both capacity and its source.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāzaq: Be strong or grow strong.
חָזַק
This form shows strength as a state that can arise.
ḥizzēq: Strengthen or make strong.
חִזֵּק
This form shows strength as something given or imparted, echoing the name’s sense of YHWH strengthening.
THE PATTERN
Genealogy preserves identity through named relationships that carry life across generations.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: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.The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For God, said he, hath made me forget all my toil, and all my father’s house.Genesis gives the name Manasseh its root in the phrase “hath made me forget.” Here that same name sits within a genealogy, carrying the possibility that a family record can include release from what memory holds.
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