What Does 1 Chronicles 12:6 Mean in the King James?

Elkanah, and Jesiah, and Azareel, and Joezer, and Jashobeam, the Korhites,

1 Chronicles 12:6 · 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

Azareel and Joezer carry the same hidden refrain: help is woven into their names.

THE MEANING

Azareel’s name carries the sense “God has helped,” and Joezer shares the root of aid. The line lets help sit inside the identity of the people it gathers.

THE ROOT

עזריאל

ʿAzarʾel

GROWS FROM

עזר

ʿ-z-r

To help, support, or come to someone’s aid.

Azareel’s name carries the sense “God has helped,” and Joezer bears the same ⁨עזר⁩ (ʿ-z-r, “help”) root. The roster gathers these names around a shared language of aid, making help part of the identity named here.

ALSO GROWS

ʿāzar: To help or come to someone’s aid.

עָזַר

The verb gives the root’s action: help arriving as support.

ʿēzer: Help or a helper.

עֵזֶר

This noun makes aid something present and available, not just an action.

ʿezrāh: Help or assistance.

עֶזְרָה

This related form echoes the same root of support carried by the names.

THE PATTERN

Support takes visible form through people who strengthen or steady one another.

But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Exodus 17:12 · KJVAaron and Hur make support tangible by steadying Moses when his strength falters.

And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

1 Samuel 23:16 · KJVJonathan’s presence strengthens David through another person’s help.

Greet Priscilla and Aquila my helpers in Christ Jesus:

Romans 16:3 · KJVPaul names fellow workers as helpers, making aid part of shared life.

THE THREAD

My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:2 · KJV

The psalm’s “help” is ⁨עֶזְרִי⁩ (ʿezrî, “my help”), from ⁨עזר⁩ (ʿ-z-r, “help”), the same root carried by Azareel and Joezer. It makes the names’ shared refrain explicit: help has a source and is spoken as a defining presence.

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