What Does 1 Chronicles 16:7 Mean in the King James?
Then on that day David delivered first this psalm to thank the LORD into the hand of Asaph and his brethren.
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
Thanksgiving becomes a song entrusted to other hands, something a community carries together.
THE MEANING
Thanksgiving takes tangible form when praise is placed in other hands. It becomes a shared voice, gathered and carried by a community.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The belief that gratitude is only a private feeling falls away here: thanksgiving is given voice and entrusted to others.
THE ROOT
לְהוֹדוֹת
lehodot
GROWS FROM
ידה
To praise, acknowledge, or give thanks.
“thank” in this verse is lehodot. The word for giving thanks belongs to a root that also carries praise and acknowledgment. Thanksgiving here is voiced recognition, not merely a feeling kept inside.
ALSO GROWS
todah: Thanksgiving, praise; in some contexts, a thanksgiving offering.
תּוֹדָה
This related word shows thanksgiving as something that can be expressed and presented.
yadah: To give thanks, praise, or acknowledge.
יָדָה
This verb shares the root of the verse’s word for thanking, joining gratitude with open acknowledgment.
וַיִּתֵּן
vayitten
GROWS FROM
נתן
To give, set, or place.
“delivered” in this verse is vayitten. The action carries the sense of placing something into another’s hands. The praise is made tangible by being entrusted to others.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give, set, or place.
נָתַן
This verb is the root form behind the act of giving in the verse.
mattanah: Gift.
מַתָּנָה
This related noun frames what is given as a gift: the song of thanksgiving is entrusted to the community.
אָסָף
Asaph
GROWS FROM
אסף
To gather, collect, or bring in.
Asaph’s name carries the sense of gathering. The verse places thanksgiving with the Gatherer and his brothers, so praise enters a shared voice.
ALSO GROWS
asaph: To gather or collect.
אָסַף
The name’s root sense echoes the gathered company receiving the song.
asif: Ingathering; harvest.
אָסִיף
This related word extends the root’s sense of gathering into a collected yield, fitting praise carried by a community.
THE PATTERN
Thanksgiving takes shape as shared speech and song that gathers people in praise.
Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.THE THREAD
Offer unto God thanksgiving; and pay thy vows unto the most High:The Hebrew root יָדָה (yadah), to give thanks or praise, appears here in the word for thanksgiving. Psalm 50 presents that thanksgiving as an offering, opening this verse’s entrusted song as something people can bring and share.
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