What Does 1 Chronicles 8:14 Mean?

And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth.

1 Chronicles 8:14 · SDV

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And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,

THE KEY

Jeremoth carries the root ⁨רום⁩ (rum), “to rise high,” inside this otherwise spare list of names.

THE MEANING

This line reaches you through names whose stories are left untold. Jeremoth carries the language of rising high within the list; the verse gives no circumstances for that height, only the name itself.

THE ROOT

יְרֵמוֹת

Yeremoth

GROWS FROM

רום

rum

To rise, be high, or be exalted.

Jeremoth is linked to the root ⁨רום⁩, which holds height and rising together. English presents only a name, while the Hebrew name carries the language of elevation within it.

ALSO GROWS

marom: Height; a high place.

מָרוֹם

This branch makes explicit the height carried in Jeremoth’s root.

meromem: Raises high; exalts.

מְרוֹמֵם

This verbal form shows the root as an act of lifting or raising, a meaning echoed in the connected verse.

THE PATTERN

Scripture lets a name carry the shape or meaning of a life, not only identify it.

No longer shall your name be called Abram, but Abraham, father of multitudes, for I have set you as a father of many nations.

Genesis 17:5 · SDVThe changed name carries the promise that follows it: Abraham is named in relation to becoming the father of many nations.

And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses, the one drawn out, and she said, Because from the waters I drew him out.

Exodus 2:10 · SDVMoses’s name preserves the act of drawing him out of the water in the story of his life.

And she will bring forth a son, and you will call his name Jesus, the LORD's deliverance, for he will deliver his people from their missing.

Matthew 1:21 · SDVThe name Jesus is tied to his work of delivering his people.

THE THREAD

The LORD strips, and makes rich; he lays low, and lifts high.

1 Samuel 2:7 · SDV

Jeremoth carries ⁨רום⁩ (rum), “to rise high”; in this verse, “lifteth up” comes from that same root. The name in the list shares its seed with the image of one being raised.

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