What Does 1 Chronicles 6:72 Mean?

And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kedesh with her pasturelands, and Daberath with her pasturelands.

1 Chronicles 6:72 · SDV

Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.

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King James Version

And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,

THE KEY

Kedesh carries the name of set-apartness into Issachar’s map, giving the sacred a place within inhabited land.

THE MEANING

Kedesh is named among Issachar’s towns, and the towns are named together with their surrounding lands. The verse holds a settled center and open room together: dwelling is more than the clustered houses.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It loosens the belief that what is set apart must be remote from ordinary life: Kedesh is named within Issachar’s territory, with surrounding land included.

THE ROOT

קֶדֶשׁ

Qedesh

GROWS FROM

קדש

q-d-sh

To set apart, mark as distinct.

Kedesh is more than a point on the map: its name carries the quality of being set apart. The same root names what is distinct or sacred, so the verse places that quality among the inhabited towns of Issachar.

ALSO GROWS

qadosh: Set apart; holy.

קָדוֹשׁ

This adjective carries the same quality of distinction held in Kedesh’s name.

qodesh: Set-apartness; something sacred.

קֹדֶשׁ

It shows that the town’s name belongs to the same root family as the Hebrew word for what is set apart.

THE PATTERN

Set-apart dwelling is placed within communal life and given room to inhabit.

Command the children of Israel to give the Levites cities to settle in from the inheritance of their holding, and you shall also give the Levites pasturelands for the cities round about them.

Numbers 35:2 · SDVThe Levites receive both towns to live in and surrounding land, giving their dwelling a center and room around it.

And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, by the mouth of the LORD, these cities and their pastures.

Joshua 21:3 · SDVThe towns and their surrounding lands are placed within the inheritance shared among the tribes.

Have you not seen that you are God's temple, and that the breath of God dwells in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16 · SDVGod’s dwelling is located within a gathered people, extending the pattern from assigned ground to a living community.

THE THREAD

And he said, Do not draw near here. Loosen the sandals from your feet, for the place where you stand is set-apart ground.

Exodus 3:5 · SDV

The word “holy” here comes from the same root, ⁨קדש⁩ (q-d-sh), carried in the name Kedesh. Exodus names the ground itself as set apart; Chronicles carries that same root into the name of a settled town.

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