What Does 1 Chronicles 6:6 Mean in the King James?
And Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,
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
This genealogy is more than a chain of names: Uzzi means “my strength,” Zerahiah carries “Yah has risen,” and Meraioth comes from the root for rebellion.
THE MEANING
The line before you is more than a sequence of births: its names carry strength, Yah’s rising, and rebellion. The same human reality continues wherever one generation’s life reaches another.
THE ROOT
זְרַחְיָה
Zeraḥyāh
GROWS FROM
זרח
z-r-ḥ
Rise, shine, or break forth like the sunrise.
Zerahiah joins this root for rising or shining to Yah’s name: “Yah has risen” or “Yah has shone.” The name holds a claim of divine rising inside what can look like a bare genealogical entry.
ALSO GROWS
zāraḥ: Rise or shine.
זָרַח
This is the root verb carried in Zerahiah’s name.
mizrāḥ: Sunrise; the east.
מִזְרָח
The sunrise is what rises into view, extending the same root image.
מְרָיוֹת
Mĕrāyōṯ
GROWS FROM
מרה
m-r-h
Rebel or resist.
Meraioth is connected with מְרִי, rebellion. The name preserves a difficult strand of human nature within the lineage instead of smoothing the family line into an unbroken story of virtue.
ALSO GROWS
mārāh: Rebel or resist.
מָרָה
The verb names the action held in the root of Meraioth.
mĕrî: Rebellion.
מְרִי
This noun gives the root’s force as a condition or act of resistance.
עֻזִּי
ʿUzzî
GROWS FROM
עזז
ʿ-z-z
Be strong or exert strength.
Uzzi carries the possessive ending “my,” making the name “my strength.” Its root links that personal name to the broader Hebrew language of might and strength.
ALSO GROWS
ʿōz: Strength or might.
עֹז
This noun names the strength that Uzzi’s name claims as “mine.”
ʿizzūz: Mighty or powerful.
עִזּוּז
This related form describes strength as active power.
THE PATTERN
A genealogy carries meaning through generations by preserving both lineage and the names given within it.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;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.THE THREAD
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.Zerahiah contains the root זרח (z-r-ḥ), “rise” or “shine,” which appears here in “is risen.” The name’s language of Yah’s rising echoes the verse’s image of the LORD’s glory rising upon the reader.
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