What Does 1 Chronicles 23:18 Mean?
Of the sons of Izhar, Shelomith was the head.
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 Izhar; Shelomith the chief.THE KEY
The one named from the root of wholeness is placed at the head.
THE MEANING
As you read, Shelomith stands at the head, bearing a name formed from the root of wholeness. Identity and responsibility meet in this brief phrase.
THE ROOT
שְׁלֹמִית
Shelomith
GROWS FROM
שלם
To be whole or complete.
Shelomith’s name grows from the same root as shalom, wholeness. The verse places that quality in the name of the one identified as chief.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch makes the root within Shelomith’s name audible: wholeness is carried into the line’s headship.
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
This branch shows the root’s sense of completeness, a quality held in the name Shelomith.
הָרֹאשׁ
ha-rosh
GROWS FROM
ראש
Head, top, or chief.
The title uses the concrete image of a head to name the one at the front of the line. Beside Shelomith’s name, the verse joins headship with the root of wholeness.
ALSO GROWS
rosh: Head; chief.
רֹאשׁ
This is the word used for Shelomith’s position in the verse.
reshit: Beginning; first part.
רֵאשִׁית
This branch shows how the head image can extend to what comes first.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness appears in Scripture joined to leadership and even as what rules within.
For a child is born to us, a son is given to us; the governance shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Father of the Ages, Prince of Wholeness.To him Abraham also gave a tenth of all, first, being interpreted, king of alignment, and then also king of Salem, the king of wholeness.And let the wholeness of the Anointed One govern in your hearts, into which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.THE THREAD
To him Abraham also gave a tenth of all, first, being interpreted, king of alignment, and then also king of Salem, the king of wholeness.Shelomith grows from שלם, the root family behind שָׁלוֹם (shalom, wholeness). Hebrews explicitly interprets Salem as “King of peace,” connecting the name at the head of this line with wholeness carried in a ruler’s title.
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