What Does 1 Chronicles 12:30 Mean in the King James?
And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred, mighty men of valour, famous throughout the house of their fathers.
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 verse calls them אַנְשֵׁי שֵׁמוֹת (anshei shemot, “men of names”): their might is known within their fathers’ house, not left as anonymous force.
THE MEANING
Strength takes shape in people whose capacity is recognized within the house that knows them. Ephraim’s name carries fruitfulness, and the verse presents that fruitfulness as a people whose strength is visible.
THE ROOT
אֶפְרַיִם
Ephrayim
GROWS FROM
פרה
p-r-h
To bear fruit; to become fruitful.
Genesis ties Ephraim’s name to becoming fruitful, so it is more than a label in this verse. The name’s root lets the strength of his descendants appear as fruitfulness made visible in a people.
ALSO GROWS
parah: Bear fruit; be fruitful.
פָּרָה
This is the fruitfulness carried in Ephraim’s name.
peri: Fruit.
פְּרִי
Fruit gives the root’s increase a concrete form, like the people counted here.
hiphrah: Made fruitful; caused to bear fruit.
הִפְרָה
This is the form used in Genesis to explain Ephraim’s name.
גִּבּוֹרֵי
gibbōrê
GROWS FROM
גבר
g-b-r
To be strong; to prevail.
The word translated “mighty” belongs to a family of strength and prevailing. It describes capacity that holds its ground; the verse places that strength among people known within their house.
ALSO GROWS
gābar: Be strong; prevail.
גָּבַר
This verb gives “mighty” its sense of strength that can hold its ground.
gevurah: Might; strength.
גְּבוּרָה
The shared root connects the men’s strength with the capacity named in the verse.
gever: Man; strong man.
גֶּבֶר
This branch makes strength something embodied in a person, not an abstraction.
THE PATTERN
Fruitfulness takes form as human strength recognized and carried within a people.
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.THE THREAD
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.Genesis connects Ephraim’s name with fruitfulness; this verse names his descendants and counts their strength. The shared root opens the roster as fruitfulness taking form in a people.
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