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

And Abishua begat Bukki, and Bukki begat Uzzi,

1 Chronicles 6:5 · 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 repeated word “begat” turns this genealogy from a list of names into a line of life continually brought forth.

THE MEANING

Your life belongs to a chain of lives received and carried forward. What comes before you becomes part of what can come after you; the verse makes that continuity visible in two brief acts of begetting.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that a life is self-originating or isolated: you are part of a line that began before you and continues beyond you.

THE ROOT

הוֹלִיד

hōlîd

GROWS FROM

ילד

To bear, bring forth, or cause to be born.

“begat” in this verse is hōlîd. The Hebrew root ⁨ילד⁩ connects begetting with a child and with generations: an action, a person, and a lineage share one seed. English separates them, but here the repeated verb shows continuity as life actively brought forth.

ALSO GROWS

yalad: To bear or give birth

יָלַד

This is the root verb beneath “begat,” naming the act that carries life forward.

yeled: Child

יֶלֶד

The child is not separate from the act of begetting; both grow from the same root.

toledot: Generations, descendants, or origins

תּוֹלְדוֹת

This word for generations links the verse’s repeated begetting to the unfolding lineage it records.

THE PATTERN

Life is carried forward through a chain of giving rise to those who come after.

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:3 · KJVThe same Hebrew root describes Adam bringing forth a son, making likeness part of what passes through the generations.

And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

Ruth 4:17 · KJVA child’s birth opens into a lineage, showing life extending through more than one generation.

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

Matthew 1:2 · KJVThe repeated “begat” carries the same chain of life through another genealogy.

THE THREAD

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:3 · KJV

Genesis uses the same Hebrew root, ⁨ילד⁩ (yalad), for Adam’s begetting. There, the verse names likeness passing through a generation; here, the root repeats across two successive links.

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