What Does Matthew 1:13 Mean in the King James?
And Zorobabel begat Abiud; and Abiud begat Eliakim; and Eliakim begat Azor;
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 repeated “begat” makes every name a hinge: each life is received from another, then becomes a source for the next.
THE MEANING
Your life arrives through links you did not create; you are not a self-originating name. The repeated begetting shows how a received life also becomes a source, so continuity moves through distinct people without erasing their names.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that your life begins with you, or that receiving makes you only passive, is undone here: each person in the chain becomes a source of life for another.
THE ROOT
ἐγέννησεν
egennēsen
GROWS FROM
γενν-
Beget; bring forth as offspring.
“begat” in this verse is egennēsen. The repeated verb makes each name a hinge: each person is brought forth and then becomes a source of further life. The root’s branches for being born and being born anew show that the one brought forth and the act of bringing forth belong to the same word-family.
ALSO GROWS
gennētos: Born; begotten.
γεννητός
The same doubled-nu stem names one who has been brought forth, linking the person to the act that produces them.
anagennáō: Beget again; cause to be born anew.
ἀναγεννάω
This compound carries the same root into renewed birth, showing that the language of bringing forth can name both descent and a new beginning.
THE PATTERN
Life and what gives it shape move forward through received links, as each recipient can become a source for others.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.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.THE THREAD
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.John uses the same γεννάω word-family for being born from God. Matthew makes descent visible through a line of begetting; John shows that birth language also names an origin in God, opening the idea beyond bloodline.
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