What Does 1 Chronicles 8:3 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Bela were, Addar, and Gera, and Abihud,
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 for “sons” echoes the act of building: each named life carries the family line forward.
THE MEANING
The verse presents a family line made of distinct people: Addar, Gera, and Abihud each belong to Bela, and each keeps a name of his own. It holds belonging and individual identity together.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
benei
GROWS FROM
בנה
banah
build, establish
“sons” in this verse is benei. The word בֵּן (ben, “son”) is traditionally connected with בָּנָה (banah, “build”). The family line reads as something built through named lives, not merely a sequence of English labels.
ALSO GROWS
ben: son
בֵּן
The son is the person through whom the family line continues.
banah: build
בָּנָה
This verb echoes the way each generation carries the household forward.
THE PATTERN
A named lineage carries continuity by holding individual identities within a shared family line.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:The same word for “son” appears where lineage is joined to likeness and image. Here, the named sons show a line carried forward without making its members interchangeable.
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