What Does 1 Chronicles 12:26 Mean?
Of the Levites, four thousand and six hundred.
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Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.THE KEY
Even inside a bare census, Levi’s name keeps the count relational: these are the joined ones.
THE MEANING
A count can hold a people without reducing them to a number. These 4,600 are identified through Levi, whose name carries the sense of joining; their belonging remains visible inside the total.
THE ROOT
לֵוִי
Levi
GROWS FROM
לוה
Join, attach, accompany.
Genesis connects Levi’s name to the verb for being joined. Here, “children of Levi” names the counted group through a relation, so the number carries belonging as well as scale.
ALSO GROWS
lavah: To join, attach, or accompany.
לָוָה
This verb gives the joining sense associated with Levi’s name and makes the census phrase relational.
leviyyah: Escort or accompaniment.
לְוִיָּה
This branch carries the sense of accompanying someone, another expression of connection within the same root family.
THE PATTERN
Scripture can name a people through the bond that gathers them.
And she conceived again, and bore a son, and she said, Now this time my husband will cling to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi, Joined.Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp and said, Who is for the LORD? Let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered to him.And all who trusted were together, and had all things in common.THE THREAD
And she conceived again, and bore a son, and she said, Now this time my husband will cling to me, because I have borne him three sons. Therefore his name was called Levi, Joined.The Hebrew word translated “joined” shares the root associated with Levi’s name. It reveals the relational sense inside the identity used to name the 4,600 here.
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