What Does 1 Chronicles 24:25 Mean?
The brother of Michah was Isshiah; of the sons of Isshiah, Zechariah.
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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.
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The brother of Michah was Isshiah: of the sons of Isshiah; Zechariah.THE KEY
The final name, Zechariah, means “YHWH remembers,” turning a bare family register into a declaration carried by the lineage.
THE MEANING
This verse holds you within a web of names and relations: brother, sons, and a named descendant. At the line’s end, Zechariah means “YHWH remembers,” placing remembrance inside the names that bind one generation to another.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It unsettles the belief that being one name among many means being forgotten: the line ends with “YHWH remembers.”
THE ROOT
זְכַרְיָהוּ
Zekharyahu
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
Remember; call to mind.
“Zechariah” in this verse is Zekharyahu. The name joins זָכַר (zāḵar), “remember,” with יָהוּ (Yāhû), a form of the divine name: “YHWH remembers.” English preserves the person’s name but not the declaration carried within it.
ALSO GROWS
zāḵar: Remember; call to mind.
זָכַר
This is the root action inside Zechariah’s name, making remembrance part of the verse’s closing name.
zikkārôn: Remembrance; memorial.
זִכָּרוֹן
A memorial keeps someone or something in view, opening the name’s “remembers” into a continuing act.
hizkir: Mention; bring to remembrance.
הִזְכִּיר
This branch shows remembrance taking form in naming or mention, as it does when Zechariah is spoken within the lineage.
THE PATTERN
Remembrance holds persons and promises in view across danger and generations.
And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark, and God caused a breath to cross over the earth, and the waters settled.And God heard and responded to their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.To make faithful love with our fathers, and to remember his set-apart covenant;THE THREAD
And God heard and responded to their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.Zechariah, זְכַרְיָהוּ (Zekharyahu), means “YHWH remembers,” from זכר (z-k-r), the same root translated “remembered” here. The name compresses into one person what this verse opens as a covenant held in view across generations.
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