What Does 1 Chronicles 8:7 Mean in the King James?

And Naaman, and Ahiah, and Gera, he removed them, and begat Uzza, and Ahihud.

1 Chronicles 8:7 · 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

Exile can expose a family’s rupture without ending its line.

THE MEANING

This verse holds displacement and continuation together: people are carried away, and Uzza and Ahihud are born. Removal is real, but it is not the only thing this family’s story contains.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that displacement ends a family’s future; the verse names removal and birth side by side.

THE ROOT

הֶגְלָם

heglam

GROWS FROM

גלה

galah

To uncover or expose; in this verb form, to carry away into exile.

The Hebrew word behind “removed them” is ⁨הֶגְלָם⁩ (heglam), from ⁨גלה⁩ (galah), a root that also means “uncover” or “reveal.” English gives the movement; the Hebrew also carries the image of a household laid bare by rupture, even as the line continues in Uzza and Ahihud.

ALSO GROWS

galah: Uncover, reveal

גָּלָה

The shared root holds exposure alongside removal, opening a deeper image of what displacement does to a family.

golah: Exile; those carried away

גּוֹלָה

This noun names the people and condition produced by the kind of removal in the verse.

higlah: Carry away into exile

הִגְלָה

This causative form shows the act of making someone leave home, as Gera does here.

THE PATTERN

Forced removal can displace a people without ending their life or their line.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

Jeremiah 29:4 · KJVThe same root describes people living through removal from home, making exile a condition they endure rather than a simple change of place.

And after they were brought to Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel; and Salathiel begat Zorobabel;

Matthew 1:12 · KJVThe verse places the carrying away beside another generation’s birth, echoing the line that continues after displacement.

THE THREAD

Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

Jeremiah 29:4 · KJV

“Carried away” comes from ⁨גלה⁩ (galah), the same root behind ⁨הֶגְלָם⁩ (heglam), “he removed them,” in Chronicles. Chronicles compresses the rupture into a family record; Jeremiah names the displaced people directly, showing the same removal as a condition they live through.

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