What Does 1 Chronicles 11:34 Mean in the King James?

The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shage the Hararite,

1 Chronicles 11:34 · 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

Jonathan’s name carries “the LORD has given,” while the verse locates him among the people and kinship that shape his place.

THE MEANING

Your place is held in relation: this verse names you within the ties of kinship, community, and an inherited story. Jonathan’s name carries “the LORD has given,” making identity sound like a received gift.

THE ROOT

יוֹנָתָן

Yonatan

GROWS FROM

נתן

natan

Give, set, place.

“Jonathan” in this verse is Yonatan. The verse’s name is a shortened form of ⁨יְהוֹנָתָן⁩ (Yehonatan, “the LORD has given”). Its ⁨נתן⁩ (natan, “give, set, place”) root lets the name carry a gift and a place received.

ALSO GROWS

mattan: Gift

מַתָּן

The same root can name what is given, so Jonathan’s name holds the gift within the identity.

natun: Given, set in place

נָתוּן

This form shows the root’s receiving side: what is given can also be placed in someone’s care.

THE PATTERN

A person’s place becomes visible through names, kinship, and what passes between generations.

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:

Genesis 5:3 · KJVSeth is named within a line of kinship, with the verse tying his identity to what he receives from Adam.

Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

Matthew 1:2 · KJVThe genealogy locates each person through the names and relationships that carry the story forward.

When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.

2 Timothy 1:5 · KJVLois, Eunice, and Timothy are joined by a quality that passes through named generations.

THE THREAD

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

Isaiah 9:6 · KJV

Jonathan’s name carries ⁨נתן⁩ (natan, “give, set, place”), the root also heard in Isaiah’s “a son is given.” The shared root lets a name and a given son meet in the same language of gift.

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