What Does 1 Chronicles 8:33 Mean in the King James?
And Ner begat Kish, and Kish begat Saul, and Saul begat Jonathan, and Malchi-shua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal.
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 line makes succession speak: Saul is “asked for,” while Jonathan is “YHWH has given,” so meaning travels with the names passed through the generations.
THE MEANING
This verse places you inside a chain of received life: Ner brings forth Kish, Kish Saul, and Saul his sons. Saul means “asked for”; Jonathan means “YHWH has given,” letting asking and giving sound through the succession. Each name carries meaning within the family line.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A lineage is only biological succession, with names as labels detached from meaning; here the names carry compressed statements within the line.
THE ROOT
שָׁאוּל
Sha'ul
GROWS FROM
שאל
sha'al
To ask or request; Saul means “asked for.”
Saul’s name holds the sense of one asked for. Beside Jonathan, “YHWH has given,” the verse lets asking and giving echo through the names in the succession.
ALSO GROWS
sha'al: To ask or request
שָׁאַל
This is the verb behind Saul’s name and gives “asked for” its root sense.
she'elah: A request or question
שְׁאֵלָה
It keeps the language of asking visible in the name Saul.
יְהוֹנָתָן
Yehonatan
GROWS FROM
נתן
natan
To give, set, or place; Jonathan means “YHWH has given.”
Jonathan’s name makes giving part of this family line’s language. The name carries an act of giving inside the person it names, in keeping with the verse’s emphasis on what one generation brings forth.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, set, or place
נָתַן
The verb supplies the action expressed in Jonathan’s name.
mattan: A gift
מַתָּן
This noun from the same root echoes the giving carried by Jonathan’s name.
הוֹלִיד
Holid
GROWS FROM
ילד
yalad
To bear or bring forth.
The root behind “begat” also gives the language for a child and for generations. The verse’s repeated word is the hinge that connects each name to the life brought forth after it.
ALSO GROWS
yeled: A child
יֶלֶד
This branch names the life brought forth in the act expressed by “begat.”
toledot: Generations or family history
תּוֹלְדוֹת
It extends the same root into the continuing line that this verse records.
THE PATTERN
A scriptural name can compress a nature or purpose into the person who bears it.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.Let not my lord, I pray thee, regard this man of Belial, even Nabal: for as his name is, so is he; Nabal is his name, and folly is with him: but I thine handmaid saw not the young men of my lord, whom thou didst send.And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.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 verse’s “begat” is הוֹלִיד (holid, “brought forth”), from ילד (yalad, “to bear or bring forth”), the same root used for “begat” here. Genesis then joins that act to likeness and naming, so generation and the meaning carried in a name appear as one movement.
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