What Does 1 Chronicles 12:13 Mean in the King James?

Jeremiah the tenth, Machbanai the eleventh.

1 Chronicles 12:13 · 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

The roster numbers each person’s place, but Jeremiah’s name carries a nature beyond his position.

THE MEANING

You are counted within a larger company without being reduced to your rank. The name in the line carries its own meaning, so a place in the order does not tell the whole truth about a person.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the belief that a person’s position or number tells the whole truth about them.

THE ROOT

יִרְמְיָהוּ

Yirmeyahu

GROWS FROM

רוּם

rum

To rise, be high, or be exalted; the name is commonly understood as “YHWH raises” or “YHWH exalts.”

The name Jeremiah carries the root of rising or being lifted, which English leaves hidden inside the name. Beside the numbered rank, it holds another dimension of identity: a person’s place in a count does not exhaust the nature carried in their name.

ALSO GROWS

ram: High, exalted

רָם

This branch makes the name’s sense of elevation audible: Jeremiah’s name carries the language of being raised.

marom: Height, an elevated place

מָרוֹם

This branch extends the same root into a place of height, showing how the seed of rising grows into language for elevation.

THE PATTERN

Distinct people take their places within a larger whole without losing the names that distinguish them.

Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

Exodus 1:1 · KJVA people enters the account as a collective, while the text preserves the names of those who compose it.

For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.

1 Chronicles 12:22 · KJVThe company grows into a great host through the arrival of distinct people who take their place in it.

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:18 · KJVEach member belongs to the whole while retaining a particular place within it.

THE THREAD

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Psalm 75:7 · KJV

Jeremiah’s name is commonly traced to ⁨רוּם⁩ (rum), “to rise” or “be exalted”; the Hebrew behind “setteth up” here comes from that same root. The name in the roster echoes the verse’s image of being raised into a place.

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