What Does 1 Chronicles 3:3 Mean in the King James?
The fifth, Shephatiah of Abital: the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife.
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
Shephatiah makes judgment part of the family line’s name, not a separate pronouncement.
THE MEANING
This line keeps a claim about divine judgment inside a family name: Shephatiah means “YHWH has judged.” That claim sits beside the plain facts of kinship, carried within an ordinary human lineage.
THE ROOT
שְׁפַטְיָה
Shephatyah
GROWS FROM
שפט
To judge, decide, or govern.
“Shephatiah” in this verse is Shephatyah. The name joins the root shaphat, “to judge,” with Yah, a form of the divine name: “YHWH has judged.” The English list can read like bare bookkeeping, but this name carries a claim about who judges within the family record.
ALSO GROWS
shofet: Judge or ruler.
שֹׁפֵט
This branch shows the root as a person who exercises judgment, the same root carried in Shephatiah’s name.
mishpat: Judgment, justice, or an ordinance.
מִשְׁפָּט
This branch makes the act of judging into a matter of justice or order, opening the name’s claim beyond a personal label.
THE PATTERN
In Scripture, a name can compress an action or claim that the surrounding words make visible.
And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.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
The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.Shephatiah carries the root שפט (shaphat, “to judge”) in its name; Hannah’s song uses that same root directly: “the LORD shall judge.” The name in the family line opens onto this wider claim about the LORD’s judgment.
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