What Does 1 Chronicles 15:10 Mean in the King James?
Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.
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
Amminadab’s name joins “my people” to willing generosity, and the verse places this chief among 112 brothers.
THE MEANING
The verse gives you a view of leadership from within a community: Amminadab is named as chief among 112 brothers. His name joins “my people” with willing generosity, while Uzziel carries the meaning “my strength is God,” holding authority, kinship, and strength together.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that a leader’s stature means standing apart is undone here: the title “chief” arrives alongside 112 brothers, and the name itself carries a people.
THE ROOT
עַמִּינָדָב
ʿAmmî-nādāḇ
GROWS FROM
נדב
n-d-b
To offer oneself freely; to be willing or generous.
Amminadab joins ʿam, “people,” with nadav, “willing” or “generous,” so the chief’s name carries the image of a willing people. The verse sets that name beside 112 brothers, placing leadership within a larger kinship.
ALSO GROWS
nadiv: Willing, noble, or generous.
נָדִיב
This branch carries the willing and noble quality heard in Amminadab’s name.
nedavah: A voluntary or freewill offering.
נְדָבָה
This branch shows the root as generosity freely offered, a meaning that opens the name toward shared contribution.
hitnadev: To volunteer or offer oneself willingly.
הִתְנַדֵּב
This verb turns the root’s willingness into a person’s freely chosen participation.
עֻזִּיאֵל
ʿUzzîʾēl
GROWS FROM
עזז
ʿ-z-z
To be strong or mighty.
Uzziel joins strength with El, “God,” so the family name locates strength in God. Amminadab’s leadership appears within a lineage whose name already holds that source of strength.
ALSO GROWS
ʿoz: Strength or might.
עֹז
This noun makes the strength within Uzziel’s name explicit.
ʿaz: Strong or fierce.
עָז
This branch shows the root describing strength as a quality, not merely an abstract force.
THE PATTERN
A shared calling takes shape through a named person and the gathered people beside them.
The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.THE THREAD
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.The Hebrew behind “willing” in “Thy people shall be willing” comes from נדב (nadav), also heard in Amminadab. The Psalm brings the name’s compressed pairing of people and willingness into a full sentence.
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