What Does 1 Chronicles 25:10 Mean?
The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve.
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King James wording
King James Version
The third to Zaccur, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:THE KEY
The third place falls to Zaccur, “remembered”, and his twelve make a named household visible within the whole.
THE MEANING
The verse keeps Zaccur’s name visible while counting him, his sons, and his brothers as twelve. Belonging has both a particular name and a shared measure. One member remains distinct within the whole.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Belonging to a whole means a person’s name disappears.
THE ROOT
זַכּוּר
Zakkur
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
Remembering, recalling, or bringing to mind; Zakkur is understood as “remembered” or “mindful.”
Zaccur is more than an identifying label: his name grows from זכר (z-k-r, “remember”), carrying the sense “remembered.” The roster places that name among his sons and brothers and counts them as twelve, joining a particular identity to shared belonging.
ALSO GROWS
zāḵar: To remember, recall, or bring to mind.
זָכַר
This is the root verb behind Zaccur’s name; the name holds remembrance inside the family roster.
zikkārôn: Memorial or remembrance.
זִכָּרוֹן
A memorial keeps a name or event present; here Zaccur’s name remains present within the counted household.
THE PATTERN
Twelve gives a gathered people a visible, ordered form.
And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar beneath the mountain, and twelve standing stones, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.And when he had called his twelve disciples to himself, he gave them power over unclean breaths, to cast them out and to heal every disease and every weakness.It has a great and high wall, and twelve gates, and at the gates twelve messengers, and names written upon them, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel.THE THREAD
And God heard and responded to their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.Zaccur’s name, זַכּוּר (Zakkur, “remembered”), shares the root זכר (z-k-r, “remember”) with “remembered” here. Exodus shows remembrance as covenant held in view; the root gives Zaccur’s name that same resonance within his family line.
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