What Does 1 Chronicles 24:29 Mean?

Concerning Kish, the son of Kish, Jerahmeel.

1 Chronicles 24:29 · SDV

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Concerning Kish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel.

THE KEY

The genealogy’s only named continuation is Jerahmeel, “May God show compassion,” weaving compassion into the line rather than adding it as commentary.

THE MEANING

You meet this family line through a name formed from compassion: Jerahmeel means “May God show compassion.” Even where the verse records only descent, that name carries compassion into the line as a nature held in its naming.

THE ROOT

יְרַחְמְאֵל

Yeraḥmeʾel

GROWS FROM

ר־ח־ם

To show tender compassion.

Jerahmeel joins ⁨אֵל⁩ (ʾel, God) to the root ⁨רחם⁩ (r-ḥ-m, compassion), giving the name the sense “May God show compassion.” The genealogy preserves more than descent: it places a compassion-bearing name in the line.

ALSO GROWS

raḥamim: Compassion, tender mercy.

רַחֲמִים

This noun names the compassion invoked in Jerahmeel’s name.

raḥum: Compassionate, merciful.

רַחוּם

This same root describes God as compassionate in Exodus 34:6.

reḥem: Womb.

רֶחֶם

The shared root gives compassion a visceral image of care that shelters life.

THE PATTERN

A name in Scripture can carry a nature or calling into a person’s place in the story.

No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:5 · SDVAbraham’s name is given with the nature of his calling: father of many nations.

And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.

Matthew 1:21 · SDVJesus’s name is tied directly to the work his name carries.

And he led him to Jesus. And Jesus, fixing his gaze on him, said, You are Simon, son of John. You will be called Cephas, the rock.

John 1:42 · SDVSimon receives a name whose meaning gives a new nature to how he is seen in the story.

THE THREAD

And the LORD passed by before his face, and called out, The LORD, The LORD God, compassionate and full of favor, slow to flare, abounding in faithful love and truth,

Exodus 34:6 · SDV

Jerahmeel’s name carries the root ⁨רחם⁩ (r-ḥ-m, compassion), the same root heard in ⁨רַחוּם⁩ (raḥum, compassionate) in this verse. The compassion embedded in one person’s name is also language for God’s nature.

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