What Does 1 Chronicles 9:41 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Micah were, Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea, and Ahaz.
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 name Ahaz carries the root “to take hold,” so even this bare genealogy preserves motion beneath identity.
THE MEANING
This verse gives you no deeds to weigh; it lets four names stand as what is preserved. Melech echoes the Hebrew word for “king,” while Ahaz echoes the root “to take hold,” carrying meanings beneath the names themselves.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that only lives with recorded accomplishments deserve to be remembered: these names remain even though no deeds are attached to them.
THE ROOT
אָחָז
ʾĀḥāz
GROWS FROM
אחז
ʾ-ḥ-z
To grasp, seize, or take hold
The name Ahaz is formed from a root of grasping and holding, so it carries an action beneath its sound as a proper name. That same seed appears in words for taking hold and for a possession: the English name preserves the identity but hides the root’s motion.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāḥaz: He took hold
אָחַז
This verb makes explicit the action carried quietly inside the name Ahaz.
ʾăḥuzzāh: Possession, holding, or property
אֲחֻזָּה
The branch shows how taking hold can become something held or possessed.
מֶלֶךְ
Melekh
GROWS FROM
מלך
m-l-k
To reign or exercise rule
Melech is also the ordinary Hebrew word for “king,” not only a personal name. The same root produces the verb “to reign” and the word “kingdom,” letting rule and its domain echo within this list without implying that this son himself ruled.
ALSO GROWS
mālaḵ: To reign
מָלַךְ
The verb reveals the action beneath the name’s association with kingship.
mamlāḵāh: Kingdom or realm
מַמְלָכָה
This branch extends the root from a ruler to the domain over which rule is exercised.
THE PATTERN
A written name can carry a life forward even when the record says little else about it.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.THE THREAD
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.The name Ahaz shares the Hebrew root אָחָז (ʾ-ḥ-z), “to take hold,” with the word rendered “hold on” here. In the genealogy the root is carried as a name; Job gives its motion in a phrase.
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