What Does 1 Chronicles 9:43 Mean in the King James?

And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

1 Chronicles 9:43 · 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

Even this compressed genealogy holds two truths together: no life is self-originating, and no one in the chain is anonymous.

THE MEANING

Your life stands within generations of named lives. Each son is a distinct person and also the point through which the line continues.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

You are self-made and disconnected from every life before you.

THE ROOT

הוֹלִיד

holid

GROWS FROM

ילד

To bear or bring forth; in this form, to beget.

“begat” in this verse is holid. The Hebrew verb names an act of bringing forth, so the line is more than a pedigree label: it is life arriving through someone. Each named son marks both a distinct life and the continuation of the line.

ALSO GROWS

yeled: Child

יֶלֶד

The child is the one brought forth, making the relationship named by “begat” visible in the next generation.

moledet: Birth, kindred, or birthplace

מוֹלֶדֶת

This branch connects birth with the family and place from which a person comes.

רְפָיָה

Rephayah

GROWS FROM

רפא

To heal or restore; in this name, joined with Yah to mean “Yah has healed.”

The name Rephaiah places restoration within the line’s roll call: one of these generations carries the name “Yah has healed.” The name stands among the generations without the verse needing to explain it.

ALSO GROWS

rapha: To heal

רָפָא

This is the healing verb carried in Rephaiah’s name.

rophe: Healer

רֹפֵא

This related form names the one who heals, extending the root’s sense of restoration.

refu’ah: Healing

רְפוּאָה

This noun names healing itself, another branch of the root present in Rephaiah.

THE PATTERN

What one generation receives continues through those who carry it forward.

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 · KJVA named child carries forward both a family line and an inherited likeness.

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

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe opening of Matthew places its central figure within a line carried through named generations.

And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

2 Timothy 2:2 · KJVWhat is received in one generation continues through people who pass it on to others.

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 5:3 · KJV

The Hebrew root ⁨ילד⁩ (yalad, to bring forth or beget) appears in both verses. Genesis makes explicit what this compressed family line shows: each new name arrives within an inherited likeness and continues the chain.

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