What Does 1 Chronicles 27:22 Mean?
Over Dan, Azareel son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.
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Of Dan, Azareel the son of Jeroham. These were the princes of the tribes of Israel.THE KEY
The tribe named for judgment is represented by a leader whose name means “God helps,” and a father whose name carries compassion.
THE MEANING
This verse places Dan’s judgment beside help and compassion in the names of its leader and his father. Its list holds distinct tribes and their named representatives within one shared people.
THE ROOT
דָּן
Dan
GROWS FROM
דין
d-y-n
To judge or contend in a cause.
Dan’s name carries the language of judgment into this list of tribal leaders. Beside it stand names tied to help and compassion, giving judgment a wider setting than a verdict alone.
ALSO GROWS
din: Judgment or a cause being judged.
דִּין
It reveals the root carried by the tribal name Dan.
Dan: “He judged” or “judge,” as the name is explained in Genesis 30:6.
דָּן
The name makes judgment part of the identity represented by this tribe.
עֲזַרְאֵל
ʿAzarʾel
GROWS FROM
עזר
ʿ-z-r
To help or give aid.
Azareel joins the word for help with El, “God,” yielding the sense “God has helped.” The leader named for Dan is therefore identified by a name that carries aid within it.
ALSO GROWS
azar: To help or assist.
עָזַר
This is the helping action carried in Azareel’s name.
ezer: Help or a helper.
עֵזֶר
This related form makes help a presence or support, not only an action.
יְרֹחָם
Yeroḥam
GROWS FROM
רחם
r-ḥ-m
To have compassion or show tender care.
Jeroham carries the root of compassion in a personal name. Alongside Azareel’s help, this places compassion in the family line behind Dan’s representative.
ALSO GROWS
raḥam: To have compassion.
רָחַם
It is the action named in Jeroham’s root.
raḥamim: Compassion.
רַחֲמִים
This related form gives the root as a quality held toward another.
THE PATTERN
A shared people is represented through distinct tribes, leaders, and members, each with a place in the whole.
And with you there shall be a man of every staff; each one a head of the house of his fathers.Then the lifted ones of Israel, the heads of the house of their fathers, who were the lifted ones of the tribes, and stood over those who were counted, brought near.So we, though many, are one body in the Anointed One, and each of us is a limb of one another.THE THREAD
And Rachel said, God has judged me, and has also heard and responded to my voice, and has given me a son. Therefore she called his name Dan, judgment.Genesis connects Dan’s name directly with judgment, the sense carried by the root דין (din). Here that name marks a tribe represented by Azareel, whose name carries help, and Jeroham, whose name carries compassion.
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