What Does 1 Chronicles 6:9 Mean in the King James?

And Ahimaaz begat Azariah, and Azariah begat Johanan,

1 Chronicles 6:9 · 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 names move from “Yah has helped” to “Yah has shown favor,” making the lineage read as help carried forward into favor.

THE MEANING

This sequence holds help and favor within a line of lives, one brought forth after another. Your life, too, is part of a continuity: what sustains you can become part of what you carry forward.

THE ROOT

עֲזַרְיָה

Azaryah

GROWS FROM

עזר

ʿ-z-r

Help, aid.

Azariah joins the root of help with Yah, so the name declares help as part of his nature. Placed before Johanan, it lets the line sound like help opening into favor.

ALSO GROWS

ʿēzer: Assistance or one who helps.

עֵזֶר

This branch makes the help in Azariah’s name tangible: help can be a presence that comes to someone’s aid.

ʿāzar: To give aid.

עָזַר

The verb gives the name its active force: Yah helps.

יוֹחָנָן

Yôḥānān

GROWS FROM

חנן

ḥ-n-n

Show favor.

Johanan compresses Yah and the root ⁨חנן⁩, “show favor,” into a name. Following Azariah, it makes the names read as a movement from help to favor.

ALSO GROWS

ḥānan: To favor or regard with kindness.

חָנַן

This verb carries the meaning embedded in Johanan’s name.

ḥēn: Favor or gracious regard.

חֵן

This related form gives the root’s favor a concrete name, as in “found favor.”

יָלַד

yālad

GROWS FROM

ילד

y-l-d

Bear, bring forth.

“begat” in this verse is yālad. The repeated verb gives the line a generative movement: each person is brought forth into the next link. Its root holds the act of birth together with the child who is brought forth.

ALSO GROWS

yālad: To give birth or beget.

יָלַד

This is the verb repeated in the verse, marking each new link in the line.

yeled: A child, one brought forth.

יֶלֶד

This noun shares the root and shows the other side of the same movement: the one who is brought forth.

THE PATTERN

What one generation carries can be brought forth as living continuity in another.

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 repeated act of begetting carries one life’s likeness into the next generation.

We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

Psalm 78:4 · KJVThe verse shows what is carried forward when one generation makes its testimony known to the next.

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

2 Timothy 1:5 · KJVA quality present in successive generations appears as living continuity within another person.

THE THREAD

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Genesis 6:8 · KJV

The word rendered “grace” here is ⁨חֵן⁩ (ḥēn, favor), from the same root family as ⁨חנן⁩ in Johanan’s name. The favor named in Johanan is also something found and encountered.

Read the SDV Bible.

Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.

Get Selah Verse

The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.

Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us