What Does 1 Chronicles 11:33 Mean in the King James?

Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

1 Chronicles 11:33 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

Azmaveth joins “strong” to “death,” so this roll call names human strength with mortality already inside it.

THE MEANING

This list speaks now through a name that lets strength and mortality occupy one person at once. Azmaveth is commonly understood as “strong in death,” and its final element carries the root that names dying itself. Human strength does not erase finitude; the name holds both together.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Strength excludes mortality, so finitude belongs only to weakness.

THE ROOT

עַזְמָוֶת

ʿAzmāweṯ

GROWS FROM

מות

m-w-t

To die; death.

Azmaveth (⁨עַזְמָוֶת⁩, ʿAzmāweṯ) is often parsed as “strong in death”: ⁨עַז⁩ (ʿaz, “strong”) meets ⁨מָוֶת⁩ (māweṯ, “death”). The second element comes from ⁨מות⁩ (m-w-t, “to die”), so strength and mortality inhabit one name rather than separate ideas.

ALSO GROWS

mût: To die.

מוּת

The verb form makes the death element in Azmaveth an action, not only a concept.

māweṯ: Death.

מָוֶת

This noun is the death element carried within the name Azmaveth.

THE PATTERN

Scripture lets names carry a nature or destiny beyond a bare label.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:5 · KJVThe change from Abram to Abraham makes the name itself carry the nature of the life being named.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe verse joins the name Jesus to the work of deliverance his name expresses.

And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

John 1:42 · KJVCephas is interpreted as “a stone,” making the name disclose a quality beyond identification.

THE THREAD

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Genesis 2:17 · KJV

The Hebrew phrase ⁨מוֹת תָּמוּת⁩ (mōṯ tāmūṯ, “you shall surely die”) repeats the root ⁨מות⁩ (m-w-t, “to die”), the same root carried in Azmaveth. Genesis names dying directly; this roll call joins that root to strength inside a name.

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