What Does 1 Chronicles 7:36 Mean in the King James?
The sons of Zophah; Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,
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 word “sons” carries the image of building: this list is a family taking shape through named lives.
THE MEANING
The verse preserves a lineage through its actual names: Suah, Harnepher, Shual, Beri, and Imrah. Continuity takes shape in particular lives, whether or not their stories are preserved. The life reaching you is also carried through people, not an idea alone.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that only famous or fully explained lives matter: even a name without a surviving story belongs to the line.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
bənê
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
to build, establish
“sons” in this verse is bənê. The Hebrew word for “son,” בֵּן (ben, son), is traditionally linked to בנה (banah, to build). The names here make lineage feel like a structure taking shape through successive lives, rather than an abstract family record.
ALSO GROWS
banah: to build or establish
בָּנָה
This verb gives “sons” its architectural resonance: a family line is built through those who belong to it.
mivneh: a structure or building
מִבְנֶה
This branch makes the list’s shape visible: each named person belongs to a continuing structure.
THE PATTERN
A line of continuity is carried by particular named lives.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.THE THREAD
And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, the LORD hath restrained me from bearing: I pray thee, go in unto my maid; it may be that I may obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.The verb rendered “obtain children” draws on בנה (banah, to build), the root linked to “son” here. It reveals the family line as something built through the lives named within it.
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