What Does 1 Chronicles 24:22 Mean?

Of the Izharites, Shelomoth; of the sons of Shelomoth, Jahath.

1 Chronicles 24:22 · SDV

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King James Version

Of the Izharites; Shelomoth: of the sons of Shelomoth; Jahath.

THE KEY

Shelomoth’s name carries wholeness into a family line, so the roster preserves nature as well as descent.

THE MEANING

This verse places Shelomoth among the Izharites and names Jahath within Shelomoth’s line. The family name carries wholeness into the record, so identity appears through both a name and the relationships that preserve it.

THE ROOT

שְׁלֹמוֹת

Shelomoth

GROWS FROM

שלם

sh-l-m

To be whole, complete, or sound.

Shelomoth’s name bears the sense of wholeness and appears twice: first as a named Izharite, then as the line from which Jahath is named. The repeated name holds identity and descent together, with wholeness carried inside the family line.

ALSO GROWS

shalom: Wholeness, completeness, well-being; often rendered “peace.”

שָׁלוֹם

This familiar branch makes the wholeness carried in Shelomoth’s name visible.

shalem: Whole, complete, sound.

שָׁלֵם

This branch shows the root as a state of completeness, giving the name a quality that can be carried through the lineage.

יִצְהָרִי

Yitzharite

GROWS FROM

צהר

ts-h-r

To shine or be bright.

“Izharites” in this verse is Yitzharite. The English family label obscures that it carries Izhar’s name, associated with fresh oil and a root of brightness. That light-bearing image sits inside what first looks like a plain roster.

ALSO GROWS

yitshar: Fresh oil.

יִצְהָר

The family designation traces to Izhar, whose name means fresh oil, adding an image of light-bearing substance to the lineage.

tsohorayim: Noon, midday.

צָהֳרַיִם

This branch retains the root’s brightness in the light of midday.

THE PATTERN

Scripture locates a person’s name within a family line that carries it forward.

And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites; these are the families of the Kohathites.

Numbers 3:27 · SDVThe verse names each family through its place in Kohath’s line.

And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

1 Chronicles 6:2 · SDVThe names are preserved as a linked sequence of descent.

Abraham brought forth Isaac, and Isaac brought forth Jacob, and Jacob brought forth Judah and his brothers.

Matthew 1:2 · SDVThe genealogy carries names forward through explicit parent-child relations.

THE THREAD

Ask for the wholeness of Jerusalem; those who love you are at ease.

Psalm 122:6 · SDV

Shelomoth shares its root with the Hebrew word ⁨שָׁלוֹם⁩ (shalom), meaning wholeness or peace. That link lets the family name open into the wholeness named here for Jerusalem.

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