What Does 1 Chronicles 6:34 Mean in the King James?

The son of Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Eliel, the son of Toah,

1 Chronicles 6:34 · 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

Inside this chain of fathers and sons, Jeroham’s name carries compassion forward as part of the family line.

THE MEANING

Your life appears here within a chain of relationships: each man is named through the one before him. One name in that chain carries the language of compassion, so kinship and care meet inside this genealogy.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The verse unsettles the idea that a person stands as a self-contained unit: each name here is carried through a relationship.

THE ROOT

יְרֹחָם

Yərōḥām

GROWS FROM

רחם

r-ḥ-m

Compassionate care; to show compassion.

Jeroham carries the root of compassion, which also names the womb. The language links compassion with the body’s sheltering, life-bearing place, so care is held within this chain of fathers and sons.

ALSO GROWS

rāḥam: To show compassion or tender care.

רָחַם

This verb gives Jeroham’s name its compassionate root.

reḥem: Womb.

רֶחֶם

The shared root connects compassion with the place that shelters and bears life.

raḥamim: Compassion; tender mercies.

רַחֲמִים

This plural form shows the same root’s broader language of care.

אֶלְקָנָה

ʾElqānāh

GROWS FROM

קנה

q-n-h

To acquire, gain, or possess; in some biblical uses, to create.

Elkanah joins the name for God with a root that can mean acquiring or bringing into being. The name can therefore hold both belonging to God and a source from which life comes.

ALSO GROWS

qānāh: To acquire, buy, or possess.

קָנָה

This verb supplies the root sense carried in Elkanah’s name.

miqneh: Possessions or livestock.

מִקְנֶה

This related noun shows the root’s sense of what is acquired or held.

THE PATTERN

Scripture makes identity visible by naming people within a chain of generations.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 5:1 · KJVThe verse frames human identity through a named line of generations.

Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

Ruth 4:18 · KJVA family line is preserved by naming one generation through the next.

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

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe opening names identity through an explicit chain of descent.

THE THREAD

Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.

Psalm 103:13 · KJV

Jeroham carries the Hebrew compassion root, and Psalm 103 uses that same root for a father’s pity toward children. The genealogy’s father-and-son chain is held within a word that also evokes the womb’s sheltering care.

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