What Does 1 Chronicles 11:45 Mean in the King James?
Jediael the son of Shimri, and Joha his brother, the Tizite,
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
Jediael’s name carries the language of being known, while the verse keeps Joha’s kinship and the men’s particular names in view.
THE MEANING
This verse holds identity and relationship together: Jediael is named through his father, and Joha is named as his brother. You are not reduced to an interchangeable place in a crowd; your particular name and bonds remain visible.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A person among many is only a number, with no particular name or relationship.
THE ROOT
יְדִיעֲאֵל
Yediael
GROWS FROM
ידע
y-d-ʿ
Know, perceive, recognize through encounter.
Jediael is formed with the Hebrew knowing element yada and El, God, and is commonly understood as “known by God.” The name holds personal recognition inside what could otherwise read as a bare entry in a list.
ALSO GROWS
yadaʿ: Know, perceive.
יָדַע
This is the knowing element carried in Jediael’s name; it gives the name the sense of personal recognition.
daʿat: Knowledge, perception.
דַּעַת
This noun from the same root shows that yada concerns knowing, not merely being recorded or identified.
שִׁמְרִי
Shimri
GROWS FROM
שמר
sh-m-r
Keep watch, guard, preserve.
Shimri’s name is associated with shamar, the language of keeping watch and guarding. That association adds a note of watchfulness beside Jediael’s knowing, while the verse preserves both as distinct names.
ALSO GROWS
shamar: Keep, guard, watch.
שָׁמַר
The verb gives the name its root association with watchfulness.
mishmeret: Guard duty, charge, watch.
מִשְׁמֶרֶת
This related word shows how the same root extends from guarding to the entrusted watch itself.
THE PATTERN
Being named keeps a person in particular view rather than reducing them to a crowd.
And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.THE THREAD
And the LORD said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name.Jediael’s name carries the yada element, “know” or “perceive,” and Exodus uses that same root when the LORD says, “I know thee by name.” The connection lets the roster’s preserved names open onto personal knowing.
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