What Does 1 Chronicles 3:20 Mean in the King James?

And Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-hesed, five.

1 Chronicles 3:20 · 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

Faithful love appears in two of these five names, making the family line echo the very quality its names carry.

THE MEANING

This verse speaks to you through a line of five distinct names, with faithful love sounding twice within it. Inheritance carries more than a record of lives: it can carry the nature of faithful love from one name to another.

THE ROOT

חֲסַדְיָה

Ḥasadiah

GROWS FROM

חסד

ḥ-s-d

Faithful love; loyal, steadfast kindness.

Hasadiah joins the root of faithful love with Yah, carrying the sense of Yah’s faithful love in a person’s name. Jushab-hesed repeats that same root, letting faithful love echo across two names in this line.

ALSO GROWS

ḥesed: Faithful love; loyal, steadfast kindness.

חֶסֶד

This is the root noun carried in Hasadiah and repeated in Jushab-hesed.

ḥasid: A faithful, loyal person.

חָסִיד

The same root can describe a person through the quality of steadfast kindness, turning faithful love from a named quality into a human identity.

THE PATTERN

Faithful love belongs to God’s nature and continues through generations.

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Exodus 34:6 · KJVThe LORD is named as abundant in ⁨חֶסֶד⁩ (ḥesed, faithful love), the quality this genealogy carries in its names.

But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;

Psalm 103:17 · KJVThe LORD’s ⁨חֶסֶד⁩ (ḥesed, faithful love) reaches children’s children, extending the pattern of inheritance across generations.

And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.

Luke 1:50 · KJVThe verse describes divine mercy continuing from generation to generation, echoing the repeated faithful love in these names.

THE THREAD

O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

Psalm 136:1 · KJV

Psalm 136:1 uses the same root, ⁨חֶסֶד⁩ (ḥesed, faithful love), rendered “mercy” in the KJV. There it names what endures; here that same root is carried in two names.

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