What Does 1 Chronicles 7:14 Mean in the King James?
The sons of Manasseh; Ashriel, whom she bare: (but his concubine the Aramitess bare Machir the father of Gilead:
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 same root names both the act of bearing and the generations it brings forth, so this lineage is carried by women the verse leaves unnamed.
THE MEANING
Your life reaches you through births and bodies, including people remembered only by the roles others gave them. Here, one woman bears Ashriel, and an Aramitess concubine bears Machir, named as the father of Gilead. The sons receive names in the record, while the women’s bearing carries the line forward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that a lineage is carried by fathers alone: this verse’s line depends on two women bearing sons, though neither is named.
THE ROOT
יָלְדָה
yaldah
GROWS FROM
ילד
Y-L-D
To bear, beget, or bring forth.
The Hebrew uses this same root for both occurrences of “bare.” Its branches include both the child and the generations that descend from birth, joining each woman’s act of bearing to the continuation of the line.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: Child
יֶלֶד
The child and the act of bearing share one root: the verse holds the bringing forth and the one brought forth together.
toledot: Generations, descendants
תּוֹלְדוֹת
The same root reaches from birth into generations, revealing how these two births carry the family line forward.
THE PATTERN
Scripture’s lineages move through the act of bearing, even when the record names the child more fully than the woman who bears him.
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.THE THREAD
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD.Genesis uses the same Hebrew root, ילד (yalad), when Eve bears Cain. In both verses, bearing connects a woman’s body to the next named link in a lineage.
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