What Does 1 Chronicles 4:5 Mean in the King James?

And Ashur the father of Tekoa had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

1 Chronicles 4:5 · 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

The count of two wives opens into two distinct names, preserving each woman as a person in the family line.

THE MEANING

Ashhur is held in relation to Tekoa, and his two wives are named Helah and Naarah. Their names remain attached to this household, even though the verse tells nothing further about them.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The women in this family line are only anonymous roles. This verse names both of them.

THE ROOT

נַעֲרָה

na'arah

GROWS FROM

נער

na'ar

A young person or youth; the feminine form means a young woman.

Naarah carries the word-family of youth and young womanhood. Her name holds that resonance alongside her place in the household as a wife.

ALSO GROWS

na'ar: Boy, youth, or young man.

נַעַר

The masculine form shows the shared word-family behind Naarah’s name.

ne'urim: Youth or young years.

נְעוּרִים

This form keeps the life-stage resonance present in Naarah’s name.

תְּקוֹעַ

Teko'a

GROWS FROM

תקע

taqa

To thrust or drive in, fasten, or sound a horn.

Tekoa is linked to the root ⁨תקע⁩, which carries both the sense of setting something in place and of sounding forth. The verse leaves the name’s particular shade unstated, but its family line is attached to a name with those resonances.

ALSO GROWS

taqa: To thrust in, drive in, or fasten; also to sound a horn.

תָּקַע

This verb supplies the root shared by the place-name Tekoa.

teqiah: A sounding or blast of a trumpet.

תְּקִיעָה

This branch shows the root’s other resonance: a sound sent out.

THE PATTERN

Scripture preserves people in family lines through names placed within their relationships.

And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

Genesis 4:19 · KJVLike Helah and Naarah, Adah and Zillah are named individually within a line about a man and his wives.

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Ruth 4:17 · KJVObed’s name is placed within a chain of family relationships, carrying the line forward through named people.

But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

Luke 1:13 · KJVThe verse holds a household through named relationships: Zacharias, Elisabeth, and the child John.

THE THREAD

And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb-ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

1 Chronicles 2:24 · KJV

This earlier line introduces Ashur as Abiah’s son and father of Tekoa; the present verse turns to his household and names his wives. The shared family link makes the two verses parts of one continuous record.

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