What Does 1 Chronicles 3:22 Mean in the King James?

And the sons of Shechaniah; Shemaiah: and the sons of Shemaiah; Hattush, and Igeal, and Bariah, and Neariah, and Shaphat, six.

1 Chronicles 3:22 · 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.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The count closes around Shemaiah, a name meaning “Yah has heard,” making hearing part of what this lineage carries forward.

THE MEANING

The verse names Shemaiah, lists five sons beneath him, and marks the family count as six. Shemaiah means “Yah has heard,” so hearing is carried within one of the names in this lineage.

THE ROOT

שְׁמַעְיָהּ

Shema‘yah

GROWS FROM

שמע

The name means “Yah has heard”; its verbal root ⁨שׁמע⁩ (shamaʿ) means to hear or listen, with the sense of responding.

The name Shemaiah holds a phrase inside a single word: “Yah has heard.” The list therefore carries the root of hearing within the family record, a connection the English name leaves quiet.

ALSO GROWS

shemaʿ: Hear and respond; listen.

שְׁמַע

This familiar form of the root makes the meaning inside Shemaiah’s name audible: hearing that receives and answers.

shemuʿah: Report, news, or something heard.

שְׁמוּעָה

This branch shows the root also naming what is heard and carried onward, echoing how a name carries meaning through a lineage.

THE PATTERN

Scripture preserves a lineage by naming those through whom it passes.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 5:1 · KJVThe verse opens a named record of generations, making continuity visible through the people in the line.

Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

Ruth 4:18 · KJVThe verse marks a family line by naming its generations.

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

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe verse begins another lineage by naming the generations it carries.

THE THREAD

The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Psalm 34:17 · KJV

“Shemaiah” (⁨שְׁמַעְיָהּ⁩, Shema‘yah) means “Yah has heard,” and “heareth” comes from the same Hebrew root ⁨שמע⁩ (shamaʿ), hear or listen. The name’s hidden meaning becomes a spoken action in the psalm: the LORD hears the cry and delivers.

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