What Does 1 Chronicles 13:7 Mean in the King James?
And they carried the ark of God in a new cart out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart.
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 Hebrew makes the ark a passenger, “they caused it to ride”, so the verse draws a line between the sacred thing and the vehicle carrying it.
THE MEANING
The ark is in motion as a passenger: it rides on a newly made cart while Uzza and Ahio drive. The verse keeps the sacred object, its conveyance, and its drivers distinct.
THE ROOT
וַיַּרְכִּבוּ
wayyarkibu
GROWS FROM
רכב
Ride or mount; in this verb form, cause to ride.
The verb pictures the ark riding on the cart, rather than the men bearing it themselves. English “carried” can blur the distinction between the passenger, the vehicle, and the drivers; the Hebrew keeps all three in view.
ALSO GROWS
rokhev: One who rides.
רֹכֵב
The ark occupies the passenger’s place in the scene, while Uzza and Ahio drive.
merkavah: A chariot, a vehicle for riding.
מֶרְכָּבָה
This branch makes the vehicle part of the root’s picture of movement, not merely a background detail.
rekhev: A riding vehicle or chariotry.
רֶכֶב
Like the cart here, it names what carries a rider from one place to another.
חֲדָשָׁה
chadashah
GROWS FROM
חדש
New; renew or make new.
The adjective marks the cart as new. The same consonants link what is fresh with renewal and the new moon or month, so this word holds both newness and renewal in its family.
ALSO GROWS
chodesh: The month, named in connection with the renewed moon.
חֹדֶשׁ
It extends the root’s sense of newness into recurring renewal.
chiddesh: To renew or make new.
חִדֵּשׁ
It shows that the root can describe not only what is new, but the act of making new.
THE PATTERN
What is carried and how it is carried belong to the same meaning.
But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.THE THREAD
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:The ark is again paired with a new cart, using חֲדָשָׁה (chadashah, new) from the root חדש (chadash, new or renew). The repeated phrase makes the cart’s novelty a recurring detail in the ark’s movement.
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