What Does 1 Chronicles 6:8 Mean in the King James?
And Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Ahimaaz,
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 makes lineage a transmission of nature: each name marks a life carried forward through what came before.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you inside a life already being carried forward: one generation brings another into being. Ahitub means “my brother is good,” and Zadok carries the sense of being aligned or just; Ahimaaz is commonly glossed “my brother is anger,” though the second element is uncertain. The names remain joined in one line, holding goodness, alignment, and an unresolved edge together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you are entirely self-made, as though what you carry began and ends with you.
THE ROOT
צָדוֹק
Ṣādōq
GROWS FROM
צדק
To be right or just; alignment.
Zadok’s name carries the root of alignment within its own shape. That same root appears in the “paths of righteousness” in Psalm 23:3, making the name resonate with a way of life, not just a label.
ALSO GROWS
tsadaq: To be just, to be in the right.
צָדַק
The verb shows the active sense beneath Zadok’s name: being brought into right alignment.
tsedeq: Justice, rightness, alignment.
צֶדֶק
This noun shares Zadok’s root and reveals the word-family beneath the familiar English “righteousness.”
tsaddiq: A just or aligned person.
צַדִּיק
This branch names a person by the quality carried in Zadok’s name.
הוֹלִיד
Hôlîd
GROWS FROM
ילד
y-l-d
To give birth, beget, or bring forth.
“begat” in this verse is Hôlîd. The repeated verb holds both links in the sentence within one word-family: Ahitub brings Zadok forth, and Zadok brings Ahimaaz forth. The genealogy presents continuity as life brought into relation, not as three isolated names.
ALSO GROWS
yalad: To give birth or beget.
יָלַד
This is the root verb beneath both instances of “begat.”
yeled: A child.
יֶלֶד
The child is the life brought forth by the repeated action in the verse.
toledot: Generations or an account of descendants.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
This branch names the unfolding line that the verse records.
אֲחִיטוּב
ʾAḥiṭûb
GROWS FROM
טוב
ṭ-w-b
Good; goodness.
Ahitub is commonly understood as “my brother is good” or “brother of goodness.” Goodness is carried in the name as something relational, joined to the word for brother.
ALSO GROWS
tov: Good; that which is good.
טוֹב
This is the goodness carried in the second part of Ahitub’s name.
tovah: Goodness; a good thing.
טוֹבָה
This noun form makes explicit the quality compressed into Ahitub’s name.
THE PATTERN
Life and meaning pass through relationships, so what is received becomes part of what the next generation receives.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.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.THE THREAD
He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.“Righteousness” here translates צֶדֶק (tsedeq), from the same root as Zadok: rightness, alignment. “For his name’s sake” also lets the names in this genealogy read as more than labels: a name carries the nature it speaks.
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