What Does 1 Chronicles 7:37 Mean in the King James?

Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

1 Chronicles 7:37 · 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

Ithran carries the root sense of what remains or is gained, so even this bare genealogy speaks through more than names alone.

THE MEANING

Six people stand before you as names rather than as a plot; their sequence makes ancestry visible without collapsing them into an anonymous group. Ithran’s name is commonly linked with the sense of what remains or is in surplus.

THE ROOT

יִתְרָן

Yitrān

GROWS FROM

יתר

y-t-r

To remain, be left over, exceed, or be abundant.

Ithran is commonly connected with ⁨יתר⁩, the language of remaining or exceeding. Its branches include “more” and “advantage,” so a name rendered only as a sound can also carry the sense of what is left over or gained.

ALSO GROWS

yoter: More; beyond; remaining.

יוֹתֵר

This form makes the root’s sense of exceeding audible beside Ithran’s name.

yitron: Surplus; advantage; profit.

יִתְרוֹן

Ecclesiastes uses this noun for “profit,” giving the name’s root a sense of what remains or is gained.

THE PATTERN

A family line becomes visible through particular names rather than an anonymous claim of descent.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 5:1 · KJVThe verse frames a lineage as a record of named generations.

Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron,

Ruth 4:18 · KJVThe line advances through specific names, as it does in this verse.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe verse makes descent visible through the names that connect one generation to another.

THE THREAD

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:3 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “profit” is yitron (⁨יִתְרוֹן⁩), from the same root ⁨יתר⁩ commonly linked with Ithran. The name’s language of surplus and what remains opens the question of what human labor actually leaves behind.

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