What Does 1 Chronicles 4:3 Mean in the King James?
And these were of the father of Etam; Jezreel, and Ishma, and Idbash: and the name of their sister was Hazelelponi:
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
This family line carries a seed of its own: Jezreel means “God sows,” turning a list of descendants into an image of life planted forward.
THE MEANING
Jezreel’s name carries the image of God sowing into this family line. The verse also preserves Hazelelponi as a named sister, visible in her own right beside her brothers.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
This verse interrupts the assumption that a family record preserves only men: it names Hazelelponi as a sister in her own right.
THE ROOT
יִזְרְעֶאל
Yizreʿel
GROWS FROM
זרע
z-r-ʿ
To sow; seed or offspring.
Jezreel joins God’s name to the act of sowing. The family name holds a living image of seed planted forward, something English usually leaves hidden inside a proper name.
ALSO GROWS
zāraʿ: To sow.
זָרַע
This verb gives the name its active image: sowing is something done, not merely a condition of being descended.
zeraʿ: Seed; offspring.
זֶרַע
The same root connects sowing with descendants, so the family line itself echoes the seed carried in Jezreel’s name.
יִשְׁמָע
Yishmaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
sh-m-ʿ
To hear, listen, or heed.
Ishma carries hearing into the names of the family. This root can hold more than sound reaching the ear: where hearing leads to response, it is attentive listening that takes something in.
ALSO GROWS
shāmaʿ: To hear or listen.
שָׁמַע
This is the action carried by Ishma’s name, making hearing part of the family’s remembered identity.
shemaʿ: Hear and respond.
שְׁמַע
The related form shows how hearing can include an answer; the name preserves that potential inside a single word.
THE PATTERN
A name can carry nature inside identity, turning a label into a living statement.
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.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 I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.Jezreel carries the root זרע (z-r-ʿ), the same seed as “I will sow” here. The name compresses the image; Hosea opens it into the act of sowing a people into the earth.
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