What Does 1 Chronicles 4:7 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Helah were, Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ethnan.
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 Hebrew word for “sons” carries the seed of “building”: this spare list presents a family line as something built through named lives.
THE MEANING
Your life, too, is carried through particular people, some named and some no longer remembered. This verse keeps three names in view, showing a line of life person by person.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
bənê
GROWS FROM
בנה
banah
Build; establish.
The word for “sons” is traditionally linked to בנה (banah), “build.” The names here make that continuity concrete: a line takes shape through particular lives, each retained by name.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son.
בֵּן
This related form names the person who carries a family line forward.
banah: To build.
בָּנָה
It makes visible the building sense carried beneath the word for “sons”.
binyan: Building; structure.
בִּנְיָן
This form shows the same root taking shape as a built structure.
THE PATTERN
A line of life becomes visible through names carried from one generation to another.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,THE THREAD
The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.The same Hebrew word בְּנֵי (bənê), “sons,” opens this verse and the line in 4:7; both trace back to בנה (banah), “build.” The repeated word lets the genealogy read as continuity taking shape through named lives.
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