What Does 1 Chronicles 6:20 Mean in the King James?
Of Gershom; Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,
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
Gershom means “a sojourner there,” yet this verse places that name at the head of a continuing line of sons.
THE MEANING
The verse holds a name associated with sojourning inside a continuing chain of sons: Gershom, then Libni, Jahath, and Zimmah. A life marked by being an outsider can still enter continuity through relationship; the stranger’s name is carried onward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being a stranger means nothing lasting can grow from your life.
THE ROOT
גֵּרְשֹׁם
Gershom
GROWS FROM
גור
gûr
To sojourn or dwell as an outsider.
“Gershom” in this verse is Gershom. The name is explained in Exodus through the wordplay “a sojourner there,” drawing on גֵּר (ger), sojourner, from the root גּוּר (gûr), to sojourn. Here, that name stands within a continuing line: the language holds the stranger and the household together.
ALSO GROWS
gûr: To sojourn, to dwell as an outsider
גּוּר
This is the root that gives the name its sense of living as a stranger in a place.
ger: A sojourner, a resident outsider
גֵּר
The root’s action becomes an identity, the name carried forward at the start of this lineage.
THE PATTERN
A name and its identity remain present through the relationships that carry them from one generation to the next.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.THE THREAD
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.This verse opens the meaning carried by the name Gershom: a sojourner in a strange land. In Chronicles, that name begins a continuing line, holding the experience of being a stranger alongside the continuation of family.
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