What Does 1 Chronicles 6:50 Mean in the King James?

And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

1 Chronicles 6:50 · 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

Eleazar’s name means “God has helped,” so this genealogy carries a testimony inside its succession of names.

THE MEANING

You meet this line as a sequence: Aaron, Eleazar, Phinehas, Abishua. Eleazar holds “God has helped” inside the chain, so the family record carries help as well as descent. Each name marks continuity through a particular person.

THE ROOT

אֶלְעָזָר

ʾElʿāzār

GROWS FROM

עזר

ʿ-z-r

To help or support; Eleazar joins ⁨אֵל⁩ (ʾēl, God) with ⁨עָזַר⁩ (ʿāzar, helped).

Eleazar’s name means “God has helped.” The English list looks like a bare succession of names, while this name carries help as part of the line.

ALSO GROWS

ʿāzar: To help, aid, or support.

עָזַר

This verb supplies the action in Eleazar’s name: God has helped.

ʿēzer: Help or helper.

עֵזֶר

The same root can name help itself, binding the name Eleazar to the idea of aid.

THE PATTERN

A family line makes continuity visible by naming each person through whom it passes.

And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

Exodus 6:25 · KJVThe priestly family line is traced through named kinship, with Eleazar and Phinehas carrying it forward.

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2 Timothy 2:2 · KJVWhat one person receives passes through successive people, who carry it onward.

THE THREAD

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Isaiah 41:10 · KJV

Eleazar joins ⁨אֵל⁩ (ʾēl, God) to ⁨עָזַר⁩ (ʿāzar, help); Isaiah’s “I will help thee” uses the same ⁨עזר⁩ root. That shared root lets the name in this family line sound again as a present-tense promise of help.

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