What Does 1 Chronicles 4:26 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Mishma; Hamuel his son, Zacchur his son, Shimei his son.
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
Mishma, Zacchur, and Shimei make this family line sound like hearing, remembrance, and hearing again.
THE MEANING
Mishma and Shimei carry the language of hearing, while Zacchur carries remembrance. The names let continuity speak as hearing, remembrance, and hearing again.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This loosens the assumption that a genealogy is only a list of who follows whom: these names also carry hearing and remembrance forward.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁמָע
mishmaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
sh-m-ʿ
to hear, listen
English presents Mishma and Shimei as separate names, but both grow from שמע (sh-m-ʿ), “to hear,” so hearing frames the line. Between them, Zacchur grows from זכר (z-k-r), “to remember,” giving the names a movement from hearing to remembrance and back.
ALSO GROWS
shamaʿ: to hear, listen
שָׁמַע
This verb is the seed inside Mishma and the repeated root in Shimei, placing hearing at both ends of the line.
shemuʿah: a report, tidings
שְׁמוּעָה
A report is something heard and passed along, extending the root from hearing to what hearing carries forward.
זַכּוּר
zakkur
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
to remember, call to mind
Zacchur carries the root זכר (z-k-r), “to remember”; זִכָּרוֹן (zikkaron, “memorial”) shows how the same seed can take durable form. In this family line, the remembered name sits between two names from שמע (sh-m-ʿ), “to hear,” so remembrance is held inside a repeated sound of hearing.
ALSO GROWS
zakar: to remember, call to mind
זָכַר
The verb makes explicit the remembrance carried in Zacchur’s name.
zikkaron: remembrance, memorial
זִכָּרוֹן
A memorial gives remembrance a lasting form, echoing how a name preserves meaning within a family line.
THE PATTERN
What is heard can be carried forward in remembrance beyond the immediate moment.
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God.THE THREAD
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.The names carry שָׁמַע (shamaʿ, “hear”) and זָכַר (zakar, “remember”); this verse joins those same roots in one sentence. What the genealogy compresses into names, Exodus speaks as a sequence: God hears groaning and remembers covenant.
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