What Does 1 Chronicles 8:5 Mean in the King James?
And Gera, and Shephuphan, and Huram.
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 verse preserves three lives as names even though it gives them no deeds.
THE MEANING
Gera, Shephuphan, and Huram remain distinct within Benjamin’s family line, with no deeds or ranks attached to their names. The verse shows how a person can remain present in a shared story through a name alone.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A life needs a famous act to deserve a place in memory; this line preserves three names without naming any deed.
THE ROOT
חוּרָם
Ḥûrām
GROWS FROM
רום
rûm
To rise, be high, or be exalted.
Huram is commonly linked with רום (rûm), meaning “to rise” or “be high,” which gives the name an upward resonance beneath its English form. The verse leaves Huram as a name within the line, without attaching that sense of height to a deed or rank.
ALSO GROWS
rām: High, exalted.
רָם
This branch carries the sense of height that may echo in Huram’s name.
mārôm: Height, a high place.
מָרוֹם
This branch extends the root’s sense of being raised or elevated.
THE PATTERN
A name keeps a person distinct inside the larger story of a people.
Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.THE THREAD
But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab.Judges names Ehud as the son of Gera, a Benjamite. That link opens this bare list further: Gera is part of a named family line that is also connected elsewhere to Ehud.
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