What Does 1 Chronicles 3:24 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Elioenai were, Hodaiah, and Eliashib, and Pelaiah, and Akkub, and Johanan, and Dalaiah, and Anani, seven.
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
Seven sons are remembered individually, and names like Eliashib and Johanan carry the language of restoration and favor into the family record.
THE MEANING
This line meets you as a record where belonging has names and each person is counted. Eliashib carries the language of return, and Johanan the language of favor, placing restoration and favor within the same family line. Identity travels through the generations in the names people bear.
THE ROOT
אֶלְיָשִׁיב
ʾElyāšîb
GROWS FROM
שוב
sh-w-b
To turn back or return; in the name, God brings back or restores.
Eliashib compresses restoration into a name: God brings back. The root holds both the movement of returning and the possibility of turning away, giving the name a sense of return from what has been lost.
ALSO GROWS
shuv: To turn back, return
שׁוּב
This is the root’s basic motion, echoed in the return carried by Eliashib’s name.
teshuvah: Return, turning
תְּשׁוּבָה
This noun gives the same movement a name: restoration is pictured as a return.
meshûvah: Turning away, backsliding
מְשׁוּבָה
The same root can describe departure from the way, making return the reversal held within the name.
יוֹחָנָן
Yōḥānān
GROWS FROM
חנן
ḥ-n-n
To show favor or be gracious; Johanan means “Yahweh has shown favor.”
Johanan carries a whole confession inside a personal name: Yahweh has shown favor. In this list, favor is part of a person’s inherited identity, not only an abstract quality.
ALSO GROWS
ḥēn: Favor
חֵן
This noun from the root gives the favor in Johanan a concrete name.
ḥannûn: Gracious
חַנּוּן
This form describes the character of the one who shows the favor carried in Johanan’s name.
THE PATTERN
A name can carry a person’s nature or calling in a compact phrase, making identity legible through the name itself.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.THE THREAD
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,Johanan contains the root חנן (ḥ-n-n), rendered “gracious” here. The name in the genealogy echoes a quality in the LORD’s own self-description, letting one person’s name carry that character in miniature.
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