1 Chronicles 6:7
in 1 Chronicles 6Meraioth was the father of Amariah, Amariah was the father of Ahitub,
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
KJV
Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,
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This verse in 1 Chronicles 6
Commentary
4 notes on this verseAaron, and Moses, and Miriam, we have known much more of than their names, and cannot pass them over here without remembering that this was that Moses and Aaron whom God honoured in making them instruments of Israel's deliverance and settlement and figures of him that was to come, Moses as a prophet and Aaron as a priest.
This site's exposition
Eleazar was the father of Phinehas
on 1 Chronicles 6:4-15
The priestly line runs from Aaron's grandson Phinehas through Zadok, who served David and Solomon, down to Jehozadak. Barnes flags a gap between Amariah and Hilkiah, three generations for a span the list of Judah's kings puts near two hundred years. The priesthood ends in Babylon as the kingdom did.
This site's exposition
Meraioth was the father of Amariah
These names carry the priestly line from the wilderness toward the time of David. Ahitub is named in 2 Samuel 8:17 as the father of Zadok, David's priest. The same pair returns in verse 11.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
All these here named were not high priests; for, in the time of the judges, that dignity was, upon some occasion or other, brought into the family of Ithamar, of which Eli was; but in Zadok it returned again to the right line. Of Azariah it is here said (
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The words behind it
8 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| מְרָיוֹת֙ | merayot | Meraioth | H4812 → | 7 times |
| הוֹלִ֣יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲמַרְיָ֔ה | ʾamaryah | Amariah | H568 → | 16 times |
| וַאֲמַרְיָ֖ה | vaamaryah | and Amariah | H568 → | 16 times |
| הוֹלִ֥יד | holid | he fathered | H3205 → | 496 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אֲחִיטֽוּב׃ | ʾachituv | Ahitub | H285 → | 15 times |
מְרָיוֹת֙Meraioth
merayotH4812 →7 times
הוֹלִ֣ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
אֲמַרְיָ֔הAmariah
ʾamaryahH568 →16 times
וַאֲמַרְיָ֖הand Amariah
vaamaryahH568 →16 times
הוֹלִ֥ידhe fathered
holidH3205 →496 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
אֲחִיטֽוּב׃Ahitub
ʾachituvH285 →15 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About 1 Chronicles
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Berean Standard Bible, 2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 6:11; Jamieson Fausset and Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.