What Does 1 Chronicles 12:26 Mean in the King James?

Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred.

1 Chronicles 12:26 · 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

Even inside a bare census, Levi’s name keeps the count relational: these are the joined ones.

THE MEANING

A count can hold a people without reducing them to a number. These 4,600 are identified through Levi, whose name carries the sense of joining; their belonging remains visible inside the total.

THE ROOT

לֵוִי

Levi

GROWS FROM

לוה

Join, attach, accompany.

Genesis connects Levi’s name to the verb for being joined. Here, “children of Levi” names the counted group through a relation, so the number carries belonging as well as scale.

ALSO GROWS

lavah: To join, attach, or accompany.

לָוָה

This verb gives the joining sense associated with Levi’s name and makes the census phrase relational.

leviyyah: Escort or accompaniment.

לְוִיָּה

This branch carries the sense of accompanying someone, another expression of connection within the same root family.

THE PATTERN

Scripture can name a people through the bond that gathers them.

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

Genesis 29:34 · KJVLevi’s name is tied directly to being joined, showing the relation carried by the name in the census.

Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’s side? let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

Exodus 32:26 · KJVThe sons of Levi appear as a gathered group, their shared name marking a people drawn together.

And all that believed were together, and had all things common;

Acts 2:44 · KJVThe gathered community is described through togetherness, making shared relation visible within the group.

THE THREAD

And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

Genesis 29:34 · KJV

The Hebrew word translated “joined” shares the root associated with Levi’s name. It reveals the relational sense inside the identity used to name the 4,600 here.

Read the SDV Bible.

Every verse has a Deep Dive in the app.

Get Selah Verse

The iPhone Bible app with the Selah Decoded Version.

Does something in this reading look wrong? Tell us