What Does 1 Chronicles 5:6 Mean in the King James?

Beerah his son, whom Tilgath-pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.

1 Chronicles 5:6 · 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

A ruler carries Beerah away, yet the verse still names him as a prince among his people.

THE MEANING

A ruler can forcibly remove you from your place, and that removal does not make your name, kinship, or standing vanish. The verse holds Beerah’s captivity beside his place as a Reubenite prince, without letting either fact erase the other.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that displacement cancels who you are or where you belong: Beerah is carried away, yet his name and place among his people remain in the sentence.

THE ROOT

הֶגְלָה

heglah

GROWS FROM

גלה

Uncover or expose; in this causative form, send into exile.

“carried away captive” in this verse is heglah. The Hebrew verb is a causative form of ⁨גלה⁩ (galah), a root that also means to uncover or expose. English gives the force of the removal, while the Hebrew root also holds the image of being exposed and taken from one’s place.

ALSO GROWS

galah: Uncover, reveal, or be exposed.

גָּלָה

This branch shows the root’s sense of exposure beneath the verse’s language of exile.

golah: Exile; an exiled person or community.

גּוֹלָה

The related noun names exile as a condition and a people, extending the verb’s meaning beyond a single journey.

נָשִׂיא

nasi

GROWS FROM

נשא

Lift, carry, or bear.

⁨נָשִׂיא⁩ (nasi, prince or chief) belongs to the family of ⁨נָשָׂא⁩ (nasa, lift or bear), giving the title a sense of one raised to leadership or bearing authority. The verse keeps that standing visible even as Beerah is forcibly removed.

ALSO GROWS

nasa: Lift, carry, or bear.

נָשָׂא

This verb supplies the root beneath the title and its sense of elevated standing or responsibility.

massa: A burden or load.

מַשָּׂא

This branch shows the same root naming what is borne, adding the image of weight to the title’s sense of authority.

THE PATTERN

Power can remove or restrain a person while their name, lineage, or standing remains visible in the record.

Now among these were of the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah:

Daniel 1:6 · KJVDaniel and his companions remain named with their lineage, even as the surrounding passage places them in Babylon’s custody.

And Joseph was brought down to Egypt; and Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh, captain of the guard, an Egyptian, bought him of the hands of the Ishmeelites, which had brought him down thither. And the LORD was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man; and he was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

Genesis 39:1-2 · KJVThe forced sale is stated plainly, while the next verse still names Joseph and describes him as prospering in his master’s house.

And Pilate wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH THE KING OF THE JEWS.

John 19:19 · KJVAt the place of execution, the inscription still names the condemned one as king; the violence and the title stand together.

THE THREAD

Until the LORD removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

2 Kings 17:23 · KJV

The verb ⁨וַיִּגֶל⁩ (vayigel, “he exiled” or “removed”) belongs to the same root ⁨גלה⁩ (galah, “uncover” or “send into exile”) as the verb applied to Beerah. His removal appears here as one named instance within the wider exile of Israel.

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