The Meaning of 1 Chronicles 1:4 Explained

1 Chronicles 1:4

KJV: Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

YLT: Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Darby: Noah; Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

ASV: Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Noah,  Shem,  Ham,  and Japheth. 

What does 1 Chronicles 1:4 Mean?

Chapter Summary: 1 Chronicles 1

1  Adam's line to Noah
5  The sons of Japheth
8  The sons of Ham
17  The sons of Shem
24  Shem's line to Abraham
29  Ishmael's sons
32  The sons of Keturah
34  The posterity of Abraham by Esau
38  The sons of Seir
43  The kings of Edom
51  The dukes of Edom

What do the individual words in 1 Chronicles 1:4 mean?

Noah Shem Ham and Japheth -
נֹ֥חַ שֵׁ֖ם חָ֥ם וָיָֽפֶת ס

נֹ֥חַ  Noah 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: נׄחַ  
Sense: son of Lamech, father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth; builder of the ark which saved his family from the destruction of the world which God sent on the world by the flood; became the new seminal head of the human race because his family were the only survivors of the flood.
שֵׁ֖ם  Shem 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: שֵׁם  
Sense: the eldest son of Noah and progenitor of the Semitic tribes.
חָ֥ם  Ham 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: חָם  
Sense: 2nd son of Noah, father of Canaan and of various peoples which were inhabitants of southern lands.
וָיָֽפֶת  and  Japheth 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: יֶפֶת  
Sense: the 3rd son of Noah whose descendants after the flood settled on the coastal lands of the Mediterranean spreading north into Europe and parts of Asia.
ס  - 
Parse: Punctuation