What Does 1 Chronicles 3:6 Mean in the King James?
Ibhar also, and Elishama, and Eliphelet,
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 names turn a list into a compact testimony: God chooses, God hears, and God is deliverance.
THE MEANING
The names make a living sequence: chosen, heard by God, and held within deliverance. What looks like a bare line of names carries a testimony of relationship and release.
THE ROOT
אֱלִיפֶלֶט
ʾElîp̄eleṭ
GROWS FROM
פלט
pālaṭ
To escape or slip away; by extension, escape or deliverance.
“Eliphelet” in this verse is ʾElîp̄eleṭ. The name joins אֵל (ʾel, God) with פֶּלֶט (pēleṭ, escape or deliverance). The KJV preserves the name’s sound, while its meaning places deliverance inside the nature it names.
ALSO GROWS
pālîṭ: A fugitive or survivor, one who escapes.
פָּלִיט
This branch makes escape a person’s lived condition, deepening the name’s sense of deliverance.
pəlêṭāh: Escape, survivors, or a remnant.
פְּלֵיטָה
Deliverance can name both the way out and those who come through it.
אֱלִישָׁמָע
ʾElîšāmaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
shāmaʿ
To hear, listen, or give heed.
“Elishama” in this verse is ʾElîšāmaʿ. The name joins אֵל (ʾel, God) with שָׁמַע (shāmaʿ, hear): God hears. The untranslated name keeps that claim beneath the English surface, and the next name carries the testimony onward to deliverance.
ALSO GROWS
shāmaʿ: To hear or listen.
שָׁמַע
This is the hearing named in Elishama: attention is part of the name’s claim.
shemuʿāh: A report or news.
שְׁמוּעָה
The same root can describe what is heard and received, extending the name’s sense of hearing into communication.
יִבְחָר
Yivḥar
GROWS FROM
בחר
bāḥar
To choose or select.
Ibhar carries the choosing root in its name. At the head of the sequence, it gives the line a beginning: choosing, hearing, then deliverance.
ALSO GROWS
bāḥar: To choose or select.
בָּחַר
This is the root carried by Ibhar, making choosing part of the name’s nature.
mivḥar: A choice or the choicest selection.
מִבְחָר
This branch shows the root can describe what is selected, as well as the act of choosing.
THE PATTERN
A name can preserve a testimony of what a person is held for.
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.Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.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 righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.The Hebrew behind heareth shares the root שמע (shāmaʿ, hear) with Elishama, whose name means God hears. Psalm 34:17 places hearing beside deliverance, echoing the testimony carried by these names.
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