What Does 1 Chronicles 4:29 Mean in the King James?

And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

1 Chronicles 4:29 · KJV

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 town names carry more than coordinates: Ezem echoes bone-deep substance, while Tolad carries the root of generation.

THE MEANING

This verse gives names and places a place in the story you carry now: what is rooted and what is coming forth both belong in the account. Ezem echoes ⁨עצם⁩ (ʿetsem, bone or substance), while Tolad echoes ⁨ילד⁩ (yalad, to bear or beget). A bare list of locations becomes a record of substance and generation.

THE ROOT

תּוֹלָד

Tolad

GROWS FROM

ילד

y-l-d

To bear, beget, bring forth.

Tolad is commonly linked to ⁨ילד⁩, the root behind bearing and generation. The same seed appears in ⁨יָלַד⁩ (yalad, to bear) and ⁨תּוֹלְדוֹת⁩ (toledot, generations), so the place name carries the language of emergence into this list of locations.

ALSO GROWS

yalad: To bear, beget.

יָלַד

This verb supplies the generative action that the name Tolad echoes.

toledot: Generations; an account of begettings.

תּוֹלְדוֹת

This word turns the root’s birth-language into a record across generations, like the lineage carried by the verse.

עֶצֶם

ʿEṣem

GROWS FROM

עצם

ʿ-ṣ-m

Bone; by extension, strength or substance.

Ezem resonates with ⁨עֶצֶם⁩, the Hebrew word for bone and substance, and with words from the same root for strength. Beside Tolad’s language of generation, it gives the place list a sound of what is solid and what comes forth.

ALSO GROWS

ʿetsem: Bone; substance; self.

עֶצֶם

The name Ezem shares this word’s consonants, giving the place a resonance of substance and what is held at the core.

ʿatsum: Mighty, strong.

עָצוּם

This branch connects the root’s image of bone or substance with strength.

THE PATTERN

Scripture lets place names hold a people’s memory, making geography part of the story carried through generations.

And he called the name of that place Beth-el: but the name of that city was called Luz at the first.

Genesis 28:19 · KJVA place receives a name that carries its story, just as this verse preserves a people’s named places.

And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:

Revelation 21:12 · KJVThe gates bear the tribes’ names, carrying the memory of a people into the architecture of a place.

THE THREAD

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.

Genesis 4:1 · KJV

The word “bare” translates ⁨יָלַד⁩ (yalad), from the same root ⁨ילד⁩ that Tolad carries. The name of a town thus echoes the same language of bringing forth that Genesis uses for birth.

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