What Does 1 Chronicles 8:37 Mean in the King James?
And Moza begat Binea: Rapha was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel 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 Hebrew root behind “begat” also gives the word “child,” making this a chain of bringing forth rather than a stack of detached names.
THE MEANING
This verse places you within a continuity of life: each person is named in a line of those who bring forth and those brought forth. Ancestry and individuality remain together; one generation follows another without making its people anonymous.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that a life is self-originating or isolated: each person here is named within a line of generations.
THE ROOT
הוֹלִיד
hôlîd
GROWS FROM
ילד
y-l-d
to bear, beget, bring forth
“begat” in this verse is hôlîd. The Hebrew root links begetting with the child brought forth: the act and its result share one seed. That makes this genealogy a chain of lives carried forward, with each generation named.
ALSO GROWS
yalad: to bear, beget, bring forth
יָלַד
This verb names the generative act that carries the family line forward.
yeled: child, boy
יֶלֶד
The child and the act of bringing forth share a root, joining each named son to the generation before him.
moledet: birth, kindred, native land
מוֹלֶדֶת
This branch extends the root from birth to the family and place into which a person is born.
THE PATTERN
Scripture makes continuity visible by naming each generation as life is brought forth.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;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:Genesis uses the same Hebrew root, ילד (yalad, “to bear or bring forth”), for “begat.” The shared root opens this verse’s family chain into the same movement: one generation brings forth another, and each is named.
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