What Does 1 Chronicles 2:14 Mean in the King James?
Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,
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 fourth son is named “God has given,” so the numbered line carries a nature of gift within it.
THE MEANING
When you see yourself as one place in a sequence, this verse lets the name speak too: Nethaneel means “God has given.” His place is numbered, but his name carries the language of receiving.
THE ROOT
נְתַנְאֵל
Netan’el
GROWS FROM
נתן
natan
To give, set, or place.
Nethaneel joins natan, “to give,” with El, “God”: the name holds giving as part of the person’s nature. The ordinal marks his place, while the name opens that place into gift.
ALSO GROWS
natan: To give or set.
נָתַן
The name carries this verb’s sense of what is given.
mattan: Gift.
מַתָּן
This noun from the same root makes the name’s giving concrete: a gift is something received.
THE PATTERN
What comes from God is received as gift and becomes provision or identity.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?THE THREAD
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.“I have given” translates נתן (natan), the root in נְתַנְאֵל (Netan’el, “God has given”). The name in the genealogy and the giving in Genesis share the same seed: what is given is written into the name.
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