What Does 1 Chronicles 2:27 Mean in the King James?

And the sons of Ram the firstborn of Jerahmeel were, Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

1 Chronicles 2:27 · 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

These names make one family line carry a language of compassion, height, and the right hand.

THE MEANING

This verse preserves a family line through names that carry meanings: Jerahmeel joins God with compassion, Ram means high, and Jamin means right hand. The names let ancestry hold more than descent; they preserve images of care, elevation, and nearness. Maaz and Eker remain named here without an explanation of their meanings.

THE ROOT

יָמִין

Yamin

GROWS FROM

ימן

Right hand or right side.

The English form makes Jamin sound like an opaque name, but its Hebrew form is also the word for the right hand or side. That same word appears in Benjamin (ben-yamin, “son of the right hand”), so the name carries an image of nearness and strength.

ALSO GROWS

yamin: Right hand or right side.

יָמִין

This is the ordinary Hebrew word carried in Jamin’s name.

Binyamin: Benjamin; commonly understood as “son of the right hand.”

בִּנְיָמִין

The name shares yamin and makes the right-hand image part of another biblical name.

yemini: Right-handed or belonging to the right side.

יְמִינִי

This related form keeps the same right-side orientation that Jamin’s name preserves.

יְרַחְמְאֵל

Yeraḥmeʾel

GROWS FROM

רחם

To show compassion or tender care.

Jerahmeel joins the compassion root with El, “God,” and is commonly understood as “God has compassion” or “May God have compassion.” The related word for womb gives compassion an image of protective, generative care.

ALSO GROWS

rachamim: Compassion.

רַחֲמִים

This plural form makes the name’s compassion root visible as a word in its own right.

rechem: Womb.

רֶחֶם

This related word connects compassion with sheltering, life-bearing care.

רָם

Ram

GROWS FROM

רום

To be high or exalted.

Ram means high or exalted, from the root rum. The name gives the family line an image of height before the verse names the next generation.

ALSO GROWS

rum: To be high or exalted.

רוּם

This verb is the root beneath Ram’s name.

romem: To raise or exalt.

רוֹמֵם

This related form carries the root’s movement toward height into an action.

marom: Height or a high place.

מָרוֹם

This noun shows the same root as a place of elevation.

THE PATTERN

A name can preserve a nature or calling inside the story of a family line.

And he called his name Noah, saying, This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the LORD hath cursed.

Genesis 5:29 · KJVThe verse ties Noah’s name to comfort, making a name carry an expectation within a lineage.

And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

Genesis 35:18 · KJVThe verse gives two names with different meanings, showing how a person’s identity is held and reinterpreted through naming.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe verse binds Jesus’ name to the work of deliverance, making the name point toward what he does.

THE THREAD

A Psalm of David. The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Psalm 110:1 · KJV

Jamin is the Hebrew word yamin, “right hand,” and the same word appears in “at my right hand” in this verse. The family name thus carries the same image of nearness and position that Psalm 110 uses.

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