What Does 1 Chronicles 15:10 Mean?
Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the head, and his brothers, a hundred and twelve.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
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 sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.THE KEY
Amminadab’s name joins “my people” to willing generosity, and the verse places this chief among 112 brothers.
THE MEANING
The verse gives you a view of leadership from within a community: Amminadab is named as chief among 112 brothers. His name joins “my people” with willing generosity, while Uzziel carries the meaning “my strength is God,” holding authority, kinship, and strength together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a leader’s stature means standing apart is undone here: the title “chief” arrives alongside 112 brothers, and the name itself carries a people.
THE ROOT
עַמִּינָדָב
ʿAmmî-nādāḇ
GROWS FROM
נדב
n-d-b
To offer oneself freely; to be willing or generous.
Amminadab joins ʿam, “people,” with nadav, “willing” or “generous,” so the chief’s name carries the image of a willing people. The verse sets that name beside 112 brothers, placing leadership within a larger kinship.
ALSO GROWS
nadiv: Willing, noble, or generous.
נָדִיב
This branch carries the willing and noble quality heard in Amminadab’s name.
nedavah: A voluntary or freewill offering.
נְדָבָה
This branch shows the root as generosity freely offered, a meaning that opens the name toward shared contribution.
hitnadev: To volunteer or offer oneself willingly.
הִתְנַדֵּב
This verb turns the root’s willingness into a person’s freely chosen participation.
עֻזִּיאֵל
ʿUzzîʾēl
GROWS FROM
עזז
ʿ-z-z
To be strong or mighty.
Uzziel joins strength with El, “God,” so the family name locates strength in God. Amminadab’s leadership appears within a lineage whose name already holds that source of strength.
ALSO GROWS
ʿoz: Strength or might.
עֹז
This noun makes the strength within Uzziel’s name explicit.
ʿaz: Strong or fierce.
עָז
This branch shows the root describing strength as a quality, not merely an abstract force.
THE PATTERN
A shared calling takes shape through a named person and the gathered people beside them.
The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman whose heart made them free-hearted to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.So we, though many, are one body in the Anointed One, and each of us is a limb of one another.THE THREAD
Your people come forward freely in the day of your strength, in set-apart adornments, from the womb of the dawn; yours is the dew of your youth.The Hebrew behind “willing” in “Thy people shall be willing” comes from נדב (nadav), also heard in Amminadab. The Psalm brings the name’s compressed pairing of people and willingness into a full sentence.
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