What Does 1 Chronicles 7:24 Mean in the King James?

(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth-horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen-sherah.)

1 Chronicles 7:24 · 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

A genealogy opens into a map: Sherah is named not only as a daughter, but as the builder of three places.

THE MEANING

The verse names Sherah as an active builder of three places, including both the lower and upper Beth-horon. Her place in a family line does not exhaust what the verse says about her; it also names what she establishes.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

This undoes the assumption that a woman in a genealogy is only a link in a family line: Sherah is explicitly named as the builder.

THE ROOT

בָּנָה

banah

GROWS FROM

בנה

b-n-h

to build, establish

The Hebrew verb gives Sherah the active role of builder, and one verb reaches across three named places. The same root can name a structure being built, revealing that the word holds both the act of building and what that act establishes.

ALSO GROWS

boneh: builder, one who builds

בֹּנֶה

This active form echoes the verse’s focus on Sherah as the one doing the building.

mivneh: structure, building

מִבְנֶה

This form names what building brings into being, linking Sherah’s action to the places the verse names.

nivneh: is built

נִבְנָה

This form shows the same root from the side of what is established through building.

THE PATTERN

Building gives life a place to take form, dwell, and endure.

And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

Genesis 2:22 · KJVThe Hebrew verb translated “made” is ⁨בָּנָה⁩ (banah, build), the same root as “built” here; building language describes the woman’s formation.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Proverbs 14:1 · KJVThe same ⁨בנה⁩ (banah, build) root names a woman building her house, echoing Sherah’s work.

Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.

1 Peter 2:5 · KJVThe image widens from one builder and named places to a people being formed together as a dwelling.

THE THREAD

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Proverbs 14:1 · KJV

Proverbs names a wise woman as the builder of her house, using the same Hebrew root ⁨בנה⁩ (banah, build) that describes Sherah’s work. Sherah’s three places make that same constructive agency visible across a wider landscape.

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