What Does 1 Chronicles 6:52 Mean in the King James?

Meraioth his son, Amariah his son, Ahitub his son,

1 Chronicles 6:52 · 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 Hebrew word for “son” is traditionally linked to “build”: each person in this line is both kin and part of a structure carried forward.

THE MEANING

A life is not an isolated beginning: it stands in relation to those before it and carries the line onward. The repeated “his son” makes continuity visible, while each name keeps the person distinct.

THE ROOT

בֵּן

ben

GROWS FROM

בנה

banah

To build or establish; ben, “son,” is traditionally connected with building up a family.

The repeated “his son” carries more than descent: it evokes a family being built through successive lives. English gives the relation, while the Hebrew link adds the image of a structure taking shape over time.

ALSO GROWS

banah: to build, establish

בָּנָה

This is the verb traditionally linked with ben; it brings the image of building into the repeated line of sons.

binyan: building, structure

בִּנְיָן

This related form makes the lineage legible as a structure carried forward through persons.

אֲמַרְיָהוּ

Amaryahu

GROWS FROM

אמר

amar

To say or speak; the name is commonly understood as “Yahweh has spoken.”

Amariah carries speech together with the divine name. In this chain, the names are not only labels: each can hold a compressed meaning that travels with the person.

ALSO GROWS

amar: to say, speak

אָמַר

This verb supplies the spoken element in the name’s common interpretation.

imrah: saying, utterance

אִמְרָה

This noun from the same root shows speech as something that can be carried and repeated.

אֲחִיטוּב

Aḥitub

GROWS FROM

טוב

tov

Good, pleasing; Ahitub is commonly understood as “brother of goodness.”

“Ahitub” in this verse is Aḥitub. The name holds goodness inside a relationship: “brother” and “good” are joined in one name. The verse’s chain of distinct names therefore carries more than sequence; each name brings its own meaning into the line.

ALSO GROWS

tov: good, pleasing

טוֹב

This is the element that gives Ahitub its association with goodness.

tuv: goodness

טוּב

This noun makes explicit the quality compressed into the name.

THE PATTERN

What is received moves onward through lives and relationships that carry it forward.

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 verse links a son to the likeness of the one before him, making continuity personal.

That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:

Psalm 78:6 · KJVWhat one generation receives is carried onward and spoken to the next.

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 · KJVThe pattern extends through successive people, each receiving and passing something forward.

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

The Hebrew ben (⁨בֵּן⁩), “son,” is traditionally linked with banah (⁨בָּנָה⁩), “to build.” Genesis 5:3 places that son in a line of likeness, opening the genealogy as both relationship and continuity built through lives.

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