What Does Nehemiah 7:47 Mean?
The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,
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The children of Keros, the children of Sia, the children of Padon,THE KEY
Padon, a name linked to the root for redeeming, places release inside a roll call of families.
THE MEANING
This line gives each family a distinct place in a shared record. Padon carries a likely echo of redemption, so release appears among the names by which a people is held together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A name matters only if it belongs to someone famous; this verse gives even less familiar names their place.
THE ROOT
פָּדוֹן
Pādōn
GROWS FROM
פדה
p-d-h
To redeem, ransom, or release.
Padon is commonly linked to פדה, the root of redeeming or ransoming. That connection lets release sound within a family name in a line that might otherwise seem like simple accounting.
ALSO GROWS
padah: Redeem or ransom.
פָּדָה
This verb makes explicit the release that Padon’s name may carry.
pidyon: Ransom or redemption.
פִּדְיוֹן
This noun shows the same root forming a word for the act or means of release.
THE PATTERN
Belonging becomes visible when people are named individually and held in a shared record.
The children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon.But now, thus says the LORD, who created you, O Jacob, and who shaped you, O Israel. Do not fear, for I have bought you back; I have called you by your name; you are mine.Yet do not rejoice in this, that the breaths submit to you, but rejoice instead that your names have been written in the heavens.THE THREAD
But God ransoms my living soul from the hand of the grave; he takes hold of me. Selah.The word translated “redeem” comes from פדה, the same root commonly linked to Padon. The root hidden in a family name sounds here as an active verb of release.
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