What Does 1 Chronicles 6:7 Mean in the King James?

Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

1 Chronicles 6:7 · 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 “begat” carries the sense of bringing forth, so this line presents inheritance as something one life actively passes into another.

THE MEANING

Your life is not presented as self-originating: each person receives a life and extends it. The names carry meanings too: ⁨מְרָיוֹת⁩ (Meraioth, rebellion), ⁨אֲמַרְיָה⁩ (Amaryah, “Yah has spoken”), and ⁨אֲחִיטוּב⁩ (Ahituv, “my brother is good”).

THE ROOT

הוֹלִיד

holid

GROWS FROM

ילד

yalad

To beget, bear, or bring forth.

“begat” in this verse is holid. The repeated verb makes each person both someone brought forth and someone who brings another forth. The line carries life forward through a chain, while the names give that chain meanings of rebellion, divine speech, and goodness.

ALSO GROWS

yeled: Child; one who has been brought forth.

יֶלֶד

The child is named from the same root as the act of begetting, linking what is born to the act that brings it forth.

toledot: Generations or family line.

תּוֹלְדוֹת

The same root extends from an individual birth to the unfolding line of lives that follows.

THE PATTERN

What is brought forth carries a source forward through a continuing line.

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 act of begetting carries likeness from one generation into the next.

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

Matthew 1:2 · KJVThe repeated begetting makes a family line visible as one life bringing forth the next.

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

1 Peter 1:23 · KJVBirth is described as receiving life from a seed whose source continues.

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 ⁨ילד⁩ root for “begat” and says the son is in his father’s likeness and image. That shared root opens this genealogy as a chain in which what is brought forth carries likeness forward.

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