What Does 1 Chronicles 25:28 Mean?
The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brothers, were twelve.
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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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King James Version
The one and twentieth to Hothir, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:THE KEY
Hothir’s name carries the root sense “he leaves what remains,” and his appointed turn counts an entire family of twelve.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you inside a larger order: one appointed turn names Hothir and counts his sons and brothers together as twelve. Hothir echoes the Hebrew root for what remains or abounds, so this bare roster holds continuity and shared service.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the assumption that a calling is carried by one named person alone: this entry includes the named musician and his kin as one counted company.
THE ROOT
הוֹתִיר
Hōtîr
GROWS FROM
יתר
y-t-r
Remain or be left over; in a causative form, leave something remaining or make abundant.
Hothir is formed from יתר, the root of what remains or is left in abundance. That seed turns a name in a roster into an image of continuity: the appointed turn holds not only one person, but his whole counted family.
ALSO GROWS
yāthar: Remain, be left over, abound.
יָתַר
This verb carries the basic sense inside Hothir’s name: what remains can continue and contribute.
yeter: Remainder, surplus, what is left over.
יֶתֶר
This noun makes the root’s image concrete: a remainder is something still present after the rest has passed.
yithrôn: Advantage, gain, profit.
יִתְרוֹן
The root can also name what remains as a gain, giving Hothir’s name a sense of enduring value.
THE PATTERN
Shared service takes shape when each turn is ordered and every member is counted within it.
And they let the lots fall, watch against watch, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the student.According to the mouth of the LORD they were counted by the hand of Moses, every one according to his serving, and according to his load. Thus were they counted of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.But now God has set the limbs, each one of them, in the body, as he willed.THE THREAD
The LORD shall make you overflow with good, in the fruit of your womb, and in the fruit of your cattle, and in the fruit of your ground, in the land that the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.Hothir belongs to יתר (yāthar), the root behind וְהוֹתִרְךָ (vehōtirkha), “make thee plenteous,” in this verse. In Chronicles the root is compressed into a name within a counted company; here it names abundance extending through body, cattle, and ground.
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