What Does 1 Chronicles 7:26 Mean in the King James?
Laadan his son, Ammihud his son, Elishama 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 word “son” is linked to the Hebrew root for “build,” so this genealogy pictures continuity as something built link by link.
THE MEANING
“His son” repeats three times, carrying a line forward name by name. Its final name, Elishama, means “God has heard,” placing hearing within the meaning this verse carries into the present.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A list of names is merely bookkeeping and carries no living meaning.
THE ROOT
בְּנוֹ
beno
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
Build, establish.
The Hebrew word ben, “son,” is traditionally linked to banah, “build.” Repeated three times, “his son” lets the line read as something built link by link, each name carrying continuity forward.
ALSO GROWS
ben: Son.
בֵּן
This is the core family word repeated through the verse.
banah: Build.
בָּנָה
Its link to ben opens a building sense beneath the language of descent.
binyan: Building, structure.
בִּנְיָן
It shows the wider root’s language of what is formed and established.
אֱלִישָׁמָע
ʾElishamaʿ
GROWS FROM
שמע
sh-m-ʿ
Hear, listen, respond.
Elishama joins El, “God,” with the root שמע, “hear.” That root also appears in shema, “hear and respond,” so the name carries hearing as more than receiving sound: it opens toward an answer.
ALSO GROWS
shemaʿ: Hear and respond.
שְׁמַע
It makes the hearing in Elishama active and relational.
shemuʿah: Report, news; something heard.
שְׁמוּעָה
It shows how hearing can become something carried and shared.
shomeaʿ: One who hears; hearing.
שֹׁמֵעַ
It brings the root’s action into the one who listens.
THE PATTERN
Names carry identity and meaning forward through generations.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts.The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And the LORD came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel answered, Speak; for thy servant heareth.Elishama means “God has heard,” with שמע (shamaʿ) at its center. Samuel’s “heareth” carries the same root, turning the name’s claim into a living exchange: hearing opens into an answer.
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