What Does 1 Chronicles 25:22 Mean?
The fifteenth to Jerimoth, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve.
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King James wording
King James Version
The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:THE KEY
Jeremoth’s place in the order holds both a name and a whole household: his sons and brothers are counted together as twelve.
THE MEANING
Your place can be particular and shared at once: Jeremoth is named, and his sons and brothers stand with him in the count. The number holds the household together without erasing the name.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being part of a larger whole does not make your place or identity disappear.
THE ROOT
יְרֵמוֹת
Yĕrēmōṯ
GROWS FROM
רום
rum
Rise, be high, or be exalted.
Jeremoth carries the sense of heights or elevations from the root rum. Here that height is held within a place of shared service: sons and brothers stand within the same count.
ALSO GROWS
ram: High, lofty.
רָם
This adjective shares the root’s sense of elevation and echoes the height carried in Jeremoth’s name.
marom: Height, high place.
מָרוֹם
This noun makes the root’s upward movement a place, linking the name’s sense of elevation to a place held in the ordered roster.
THE PATTERN
A person’s place becomes visible within a counted whole that still holds names, households, and distinct roles.
And they gathered all the assembly together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their births after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, head by head.For as the body is one, and has many limbs, and all the limbs of the body, though many, are one body, so also is the Anointed One.For just as we have many limbs in one body, and not all the limbs have the same deed.THE THREAD
The LORD strips, and makes rich; he lays low, and lifts high.The same root carried by Jeremoth appears in “lifteth up,” where it names rising or elevation. That echo lets the roster’s name carry the seed of height within its counted place among the people.
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