What Does 1 Chronicles 3:8 Mean in the King James?
And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.
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
A genealogy that looks like a count also declares: God hears, God knows, and God is deliverance.
THE MEANING
Elishama, Eliada, and Eliphelet carry a living claim into the present: God hears, God knows, and escape is held in God’s nature. Their names keep these truths legible whenever this line is read.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a cry goes unheard, a person remains unknown, and confinement is final.
THE ROOT
אֱלִישָׁמָע
ʾĔlîšāmāʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
sh-m-ʿ
Hear, listen, heed.
Elishama joins El, “God,” to שמע (shamaʿ, “hear”), making the name a declaration that God has heard. The same root appears in Ishmael, so the name carries a connection that English spelling conceals.
ALSO GROWS
shemaʿ: Hear and respond.
שְׁמַע
This familiar form shares the name’s root and shows hearing as attentive response.
shemuʿah: A report; something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
This branch shows how hearing can become a message carried onward, as the name carries its testimony through the line.
אֶלְיָדָע
ʾElyādāʿ
GROWS FROM
ידע
y-d-ʿ
Know, recognize, perceive.
Eliada joins El, “God,” to ידע (yadaʿ, “know”). The name points toward knowing by encounter, not merely possessing information.
ALSO GROWS
yadaʿ: Know, recognize, perceive by encounter.
יָדַע
This is the verb at the heart of Eliada, giving the name its claim that God knows.
daʿat: Knowing, knowledge, perception.
דַּעַת
This noun grows from the same root and shows knowing as something held and present.
אֱלִיפֶלֶט
ʾĔlîpelet
GROWS FROM
פלט
p-l-ṭ
Escape, slip away, bring out of danger.
Eliphelet joins El, “God,” to a word for escape or deliverance. The name carries the possibility of getting free inside a family list that could otherwise read as only a count.
ALSO GROWS
palat: Escape; bring out of danger.
פָּלַט
This verb shares the name’s root and gives its deliverance meaning a concrete shape.
palit: A survivor; one who escapes.
פָּלִיט
This branch names the one who gets free, extending the root’s movement from escape to the person who emerges.
THE PATTERN
In Scripture, a name can carry the truth or purpose the verse declares.
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.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 angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.Ishmael (יִשְׁמָעֵאל, Yishmaʿel, “God hears”) shares the root שמע (sh-m-ʿ, “hear”) with Elishama. Genesis makes the hearing inside this genealogy explicit: the LORD hears affliction.
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