What Does Matthew 1:14 Mean in the King James?
And Azor begat Sadoc; and Sadoc begat Achim; and Achim begat Eliud;
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 Greek verb “begat” makes this genealogy a chain of life received and carried forward, one generation at a time.
THE MEANING
The names arrive through a repeated act of begetting, placing each life within a chain of particular lives. Your present, too, belongs to a story carried through people who came before you.
THE ROOT
ἐγέννησεν
egennēsen
GROWS FROM
γενν
To beget, give birth, or bring forth offspring.
“begat” in this verse is egennēsen. The verse uses the same generative verb again and again: one person begets the next. The γενν- family also names birth and offspring, so the genealogy presents inheritance as life received and carried onward.
ALSO GROWS
gennaō: To beget or give birth.
γεννάω
This is the verb behind ἐγέννησεν, making each link in the verse an act of generation.
gennēma: That which is born; offspring or fruit.
γέννημα
It shows the same root naming the life that comes from begetting.
gennēsis: Birth or coming into being.
γέννησις
It carries the verse’s generative action into the event of a life’s arrival.
THE PATTERN
Life is received through generation and carried forward into those who come after.
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.Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.THE THREAD
Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.The Greek word translated “born” in 1 Peter belongs to the same γενν- family as “begat” here. The shared root connects this line of ancestry with the image of life received from an enduring source.
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