What Does 1 Chronicles 8:27 Mean?
And Jaareshiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.THE KEY
The genealogy is already a memorial: Zichri’s name grows from “remember,” and speaking his name keeps that remembrance alive.
THE MEANING
This line holds remembrance and compassion inside its names: Zichri carries the language of remembering, while Jeroham carries the language of compassion. The names keep each person legible within a family line that remains present whenever it is read.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the assumption that a name is only a label or a genealogy an empty list: here, the names carry meaning that remains present in speech.
THE ROOT
זִכְרִי
Zikri
GROWS FROM
ז־כ־ר
Z-K-R
Remember; call to mind.
Zichri carries the same root as the Hebrew words for remembering and memorial. In this verse, the genealogy does more than list a name: it preserves that name in the act of being read.
ALSO GROWS
zakar: Remember; call to mind.
זָכַר
This verb is the seed beneath Zichri’s name, giving the name the force of remembrance rather than a bare label.
zeker: Remembrance; memorial.
זֵכֶר
The same root names a memorial, so the spoken name in this family line becomes an act of keeping someone present.
יְרֹחָם
Yeroham
GROWS FROM
ר־ח־ם
R-Ḥ-M
Show compassion; have tender mercy.
Jeroham’s name carries the root of compassion into the family line. Hebrew also uses this root for compassionate tenderness, so the name holds more than ancestry: it bears the language of care.
ALSO GROWS
riḥem: Show compassion; have mercy.
רִחֵם
This verb shares Jeroham’s root and brings compassion into the meaning carried by the name.
raḥum: Compassionate; merciful.
רַחוּם
This adjective makes the root a quality of a person, echoing how a name can carry a nature within a genealogy.
THE PATTERN
A name kept in remembrance preserves a person’s identity across generations.
God also said to Moses, Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is my name for the ages, and this is my remembrance to all generations.For he does not slip for the ages; the aligned one is in remembrance of the ages.He has taken hold of Israel his servant, to remember his faithful love.THE THREAD
For he does not slip for the ages; the aligned one is in remembrance of the ages.“Remembrance” here comes from ז־כ־ר, the same root carried by Zichri’s name. The genealogy enacts that remembrance by speaking the names and keeping them present across generations.
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