What Does 1 Chronicles 2:55 Mean in the King James?
And the families of the scribes which dwelt at Jabez; the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and Suchathites. These are the Kenites that came of Hemath, the father of the house of Rechab.
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 word “scribes” grows from a root of counting and recording, so the people who preserve a lineage are themselves preserved in its record.
THE MEANING
A place, a vocation, and an inherited connection can all belong to your story at once. This verse holds the scribes at Jabez alongside the Kenite families and the house of Rechab in a single record.
THE ROOT
סֹפְרִים
soferim
GROWS FROM
ספר
s-p-r
Count, recount, or record.
“scribes” in this verse is soferim. The word for a scribe grows from a root of counting, recounting, and recording, so the verse’s record-keepers are themselves gathered into the record. The lineage is carried not only by descent but also by the act of naming and preserving it.
ALSO GROWS
sefer: Book or written record
סֵפֶר
The families in this verse are held in a written record, the work associated with the scribes.
mispar: Number or count
מִסְפָּר
The root’s counting sense connects a record of people with the act of counting them.
sippur: Account or story
סִפּוּר
A list of family names also carries an account of who belongs and where their connections lead.
THE PATTERN
Being counted, recorded, or named keeps belonging visible across generations and communities.
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.THE THREAD
The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah.The verb translated “count” belongs to the same ספר (s-p-r) root family as “scribes” in this verse. It opens the family list as an act of counting and recording people into a place of belonging.
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