What Does Matthew 1:7 Mean in the King James?
And Solomon begat Roboam; and Roboam begat Abia; and Abia begat Asa;
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
“Begat” turns this genealogy from a static list into a chain in which each name is received from another and becomes a source for the next.
THE MEANING
Your life is not isolated from what came before it. This verse names a chain in which each person receives life through another and carries it forward. Each name is both an arrival and a source.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that you are self-originating or separate from those who came before: every name here is received through relation and carried onward.
THE ROOT
ἐγέννησεν
egennēsen
GROWS FROM
γενν-
gen-
To beget or bring forth; to cause another generation to come into being.
“begat” in this verse is egennēsen. The repeated Greek verb makes the line more than a record of names: each person is both brought forth and the one who brings another forth. The same word family also speaks of offspring and of being born, holding source and arrival together.
ALSO GROWS
gennēma: What has been brought forth; offspring or produce.
γέννημα
The branch names what the repeated act of begetting leaves behind: a next life that comes from a source.
gennētos: Born or brought forth.
γεννητός
This branch describes each person in the line as someone who first arrives through another.
שְׁלֹמֹה
Shelomoh
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole or complete; the related noun shalom carries the sense of wholeness.
Solomon’s Hebrew name belongs to the consonantal family of שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness), a connection the English name obscures. The genealogy begins with that note of wholeness, then shows life continuing through a chain of distinct people.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness or well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
The name Solomon carries an echo of wholeness at the start of this generational line.
shalem: Whole or complete.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the name’s connection to wholeness audible beneath its English form.
THE PATTERN
Life is named as something received from a source and carried forward into another.
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel.Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.THE THREAD
Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.Matthew repeats ἐγέννησεν (egennēsen, “begat”), while John uses the same γεννάω (gennaō, “beget, bring forth”) word family for those “born ... of God.” The shared root connects family descent with the language of life received from a source.
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