What Does 1 Chronicles 5:14 Mean in the King James?

These are the children of Abihail the son of Huri, the son of Jaroah, the son of Gilead, the son of Michael, the son of Jeshishai, the son of Jahdo, the son of Buz;

1 Chronicles 5:14 · KJV

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This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

Jahdo’s name echoes “together,” so this genealogy’s repeated “son of” reads as a chain of joined lives.

THE MEANING

Your life does not begin in isolation: you stand within relationships that carry one name into another. Even these unfamiliar names make continuity concrete, because each person is named through a relation.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that you must be entirely self-originating is undone: a life arrives through others and remains connected to them.

THE ROOT

יַחְדּוֹ

yaḥdô

GROWS FROM

יחד

to join, unite, be together

The name Jahdo carries the language of joining inside this chain of “son of” relations. The genealogy makes continuity visible as connection between particular names, not as an anonymous line.

ALSO GROWS

yaḥad: together

יַחַד

This form shares the root’s consonants and names the togetherness echoed by Jahdo in a passage built from linked generations.

yaḥdāv: together, all together

יַחְדָּו

This form uses the same root consonants to describe people joined in a shared action, extending the name’s echo of connection.

THE PATTERN

A person’s place in a lineage is carried through named relations, making continuity visible across generations.

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:3 · KJVA parent and child are named together, making the passing of life visible through a particular relationship.

Adam, Sheth, Enosh,

1 Chronicles 1:1 · KJVEven this compressed list preserves continuity by naming each person in the line.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe opening names a lineage through relationships, locating one life within the names that precede it.

THE THREAD

A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Psalm 133:1 · KJV

The Hebrew word for “together” in this verse shares the root ⁨יחד⁩ with the name Jahdo. The genealogy shows togetherness as a chain of named relations; the psalm names the goodness of shared life.

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