What Does 1 Chronicles 7:11 Mean?
All these were the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of strength, seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.
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King James wording
King James Version
All these the sons of Jediael, by the heads of their fathers, mighty men of valour, were seventeen thousand and two hundred soldiers, fit to go out for war and battle.THE KEY
The verse treats strength as something held in common: a family line gathers people into readiness to act together.
THE MEANING
Here, strength takes shape within belonging: you see a family line gathered into a counted body. The passage names that shared capacity plainly as martial readiness, fit to go out for war and battle.
THE ROOT
גִּבּוֹרֵי
gibborei
GROWS FROM
גבר
To grow strong or prevail.
The Hebrew word for “mighty” comes from a root of becoming strong or prevailing. The verse places that strength within a family and a counted host, so might appears as shared capacity, not only an individual trait.
ALSO GROWS
gibbor: A mighty one or warrior.
גִּבּוֹר
This is the singular form behind the verse’s description of the men as mighty.
gevurah: Might or strength.
גְּבוּרָה
It names the force that the men are counted as having.
hitgabber: To grow strong or prevail.
הִתְגַּבֵּר
This verbal form shows the root as strength becoming effective.
יְדִיעֲאֵל
Yediael
GROWS FROM
ידע
To know, recognize, or perceive.
“Jediael” in this verse is Yediael. The name is often understood as “God knows” or “known of God”: the root ידע (yada, know or perceive) joins אֵל (El, God). The verse introduces this counted family under a name that carries the idea of being known.
ALSO GROWS
yada: To know or perceive.
יָדַע
This is the verb at the heart of the name’s sense of knowing.
yedi'ah: Knowledge or knowing.
יְדִיעָה
This noun carries the root’s knowing into a state of understanding.
madda: Knowledge or understanding.
מַדָּע
This branch shows the same root describing what is known or understood.
יוֹצְאֵי צָבָא
yotsei tsava
GROWS FROM
צבא
A host or army; also, to serve in a host.
“soldiers” in this verse is yotsei tsava. The Hebrew phrase יוֹצְאֵי צָבָא (yotsei tsava) means those going out as part of a host. The root holds the army and military service together: these are not just individuals in a count, but a body organized to go out for battle.
ALSO GROWS
tsava: A host or army.
צָבָא
This is the noun in the verse’s phrase for the soldiers.
tsevaot: Hosts or armies.
צְבָאוֹת
The plural form makes the root’s sense of an organized force visible.
tsava: To serve in a host or perform military service.
צָבָא
The verbal use connects belonging to the host with the work its members carry out.
THE PATTERN
A people’s capacity becomes visible when ability is organized into shared responsibility and action.
And Moses chose men of strength out of all Israel, and set them as heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.And the messenger of the LORD let himself be seen by him, and said to him, The LORD is with you, you mighty man of strength.They put out the strength of fire, fled the mouth of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, grew strong in war, and bent back the camps of others.THE THREAD
And Cush brought forth Nimrod; he began to be a mighty one in the earth.Genesis calls Nimrod גִּבּוֹר (gibbor, a mighty one), from the same root גבר (g-b-r, grow strong or prevail) as the mighty men here. Chronicles applies that word across a family group, making shared strength countable.
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