What Does 1 Chronicles 8:4 Mean in the King James?

And Abishua, and Naaman, and Ahoah,

1 Chronicles 8:4 · 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

A family line carries more than succession: Naaman’s name bears the seed of pleasantness.

THE MEANING

Abishua, Naaman, and Ahoah stand as distinct names in a family line. Naaman carries the root of pleasantness within his name, and the verse preserves each person as a particular identity.

THE ROOT

נַעֲמָן

Naʿamān

GROWS FROM

נעם

n-ʿ-m

To be pleasant or delightful.

Naaman carries the root of pleasantness inside a name that can sound like a bare entry in a genealogy. The same root describes pleasantness and delight elsewhere, letting this name open into a quality the reader can recognize beyond the family line.

ALSO GROWS

noʿam: Pleasantness, delight; rendered “beauty” in Psalm 90:17.

נֹעַם

This form shares Naaman’s root and gives the name a direct thread to the prayer that the LORD’s beauty, or pleasantness, rests upon us.

naʿim: Pleasant, lovely; rendered “pleasant” in Psalm 133:1.

נָעִים

This related form uses the same seed for what is delightful, showing that Naaman’s name belongs to a broader language of pleasantness.

THE PATTERN

A lineage is carried through named persons whose identities remain distinct across generations.

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 5:3 · KJVSeth is named within a line of descent, carrying identity from one generation to the next.

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

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe opening names a lineage through particular people, making descent a chain of identities.

Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

Luke 3:38 · KJVThe names keep each link in the line visible, carrying the genealogy back to Adam.

THE THREAD

And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Psalm 90:17 · KJV

Naaman carries ⁨נעם⁩ (naʿam, pleasantness), the root behind the “beauty” in this verse. The shared root opens the genealogy’s name into a prayer that the LORD’s pleasantness rests upon the work of our hands.

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