What Does 1 Chronicles 6:43 Mean in the King James?
The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.
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 repeated “son” turns a genealogy into architecture: one life is built into the next.
THE MEANING
This line names a person through the lives that precede him: Jahath belongs in Gershom’s line, and Gershom in Levi’s. Your own life, too, enters a story already underway; here, identity takes shape through connection and generations.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a life begins entirely with itself gives way to a picture of identity received through relationship.
THE ROOT
בֵּן
ben
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
Build; establish.
The Hebrew word for son, ben, is linked to banah, meaning “to build.” The repeated word lets this family line read as a structure taking shape through successive lives, a connection made explicit when Sarai speaks of being “built” through children.
ALSO GROWS
banah: To build or establish.
בָּנָה
This root gives the verse’s repeated “son” a building resonance: each generation forms part of a continuing family structure.
binyan: Building; structure.
בִּנְיָן
This branch makes visible the architectural image carried by the verse’s chain of descent.
THE PATTERN
A life is carried forward through named relationships and what passes between 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:The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.THE THREAD
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.In Hebrew, Sarai’s phrase translated “obtain children” uses banah, “to build.” That shared root lets the “son” in this genealogy resonate as part of a life and family being built across generations.
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