What Does 1 Chronicles 7:20 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Ephraim; Shuthelah, and Bered his son, and Tahath his son, and Eladah his son, and Tahath his son,
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 “his son” hides a building word: these names form a lineage built one generation at a time.
THE MEANING
Each name stands in a relationship, and the line keeps extending. Your life, too, exists within lines of inheritance and influence: you receive from those before you and carry something forward.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
You are a self-made beginning, with no living connection to what came before.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
bənê
GROWS FROM
בנה
To build or establish.
“sons” in this verse is bənê. The word for “son” is related to the root for building. The repeated “his son” makes the genealogy feel like a structure taking shape, each named generation extending the line.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son.
בֵּן
This is the singular form behind “sons”; its connection to בנה links sonship with the building of a family line.
banah: To build.
בָּנָה
This verb gives the lineage’s repeated father-to-son links a building sense: each generation extends what came before.
binyan: Building or structure.
בִּנְיָן
This branch makes visible the structure formed by the names and relationships in the verse.
אֶפְרַיִם
Efrayim
GROWS FROM
פרה
To bear fruit or be fruitful.
Ephraim’s name is linked to fruitfulness. Here, that meaning takes visible form in a line of descendants, with each name carrying life forward.
ALSO GROWS
parah: To bear fruit; to be fruitful.
פָּרָה
This is the root associated with Ephraim’s name and frames the descendants as fruitfulness unfolding through a lineage.
peri: Fruit.
פְּרִי
This branch gives fruitfulness a concrete image: what grows from a source and carries life onward.
THE PATTERN
Fruitfulness becomes visible as a line of life carried forward through named generations.
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;THE THREAD
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.Genesis 41:52 links Ephraim’s name with the root פרה (parah), “to be fruitful.” In this genealogy, that fruitfulness appears as a line of named descendants.
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