What Does 1 Chronicles 6:2 Mean in the King James?

And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

1 Chronicles 6:2 · 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 word “sons” carries the image of building, while Hebron’s name carries joining: this line is made of relationship.

THE MEANING

Your identity takes shape through both a line and relationships: the word for sons carries a build image, and the name Hebron carries joining. Each distinct name remains within a larger bond.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It dissolves the belief that identity is self-made and isolated: the line names belonging as part of how a life is built.

THE ROOT

בְּנֵי

bənê

GROWS FROM

בנה

Build, establish, bring up.

The Hebrew word for “sons” belongs to a word family linked with building. The genealogy therefore carries an image of a life and household taking shape through those who come after.

ALSO GROWS

bānāh: Build, establish.

בָּנָה

The build image gives “sons” a sense of continuity: the family line takes shape through each generation.

binyan: Building, structure.

בִּנְיָן

This branch makes the genealogy legible as a structure made of named relationships.

חֶבְרוֹן

Ḥeḇrôn

GROWS FROM

חבר

Join, bind, associate.

Hebron’s name carries the sense of joining or association. Inside a list of sons, it makes the bond within the line audible as part of the name itself.

ALSO GROWS

ḥāḇar: Join, associate.

חָבַר

This verb shows the joining carried in Hebron’s name and in the family line around it.

ḥeḇer: Company, band, association.

חֶבֶר

This related noun gives the line the sense of people held together in a shared bond.

עֻזִּיאֵל

ʿUzzîʾēl

GROWS FROM

עזז

Be strong, prevail.

Uzziel’s name combines ⁨עֹז⁩ (ʿōz, strength) with ⁨אֵל⁩ (ʾEl, God): “God is my strength.” In this line, strength is named in relation to God rather than as a quality standing alone.

ALSO GROWS

ʿōz: Strength, might.

עֹז

This is the strength named in Uzziel’s name.

ʿāzaz: Be strong, prevail.

עָזַז

The verb shows the action behind the name’s strength: to stand firm or prevail.

THE PATTERN

A person’s name appears within a chain of kinship, making continuity part of identity.

And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

Genesis 46:11 · KJVLevi’s sons are named as a line, just as this verse names the next generation through Kohath.

Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

Matthew 1:2 · KJVSeveral generations are named in sequence, with each relationship carrying the line forward.

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,

Luke 3:23 · KJVJesus is named within a chain of kinship, showing the same pattern in another genealogy.

THE THREAD

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Psalm 127:3 · KJV

The same Hebrew word family, ⁨בֵּן⁩ (bēn, son) and ⁨בָּנִים⁩ (bānîm, children), lies beneath “sons” here and “children” there. That shared root opens this genealogy as life carried forward through inheritance and relationship.

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