What Does 1 Chronicles 23:17 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Eliezer were, Rehabiah the chief. And Eliezer had none other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.
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
Eliezer has one son, but that single branch becomes many, and Rehabiah’s name carries the sense of being made wide.
THE MEANING
This verse holds a narrow beginning and a wide outcome together: Eliezer has no other sons, yet Rehabiah’s line is very large. Its shape is clear now, a single branch can open into abundance.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the assumption that abundance requires many beginnings: one son’s line becomes very many.
THE ROOT
רְחַבְיָהוּ
Reḥavyahu
GROWS FROM
רחב
r-ḥ-b
To be wide, make room, or enlarge.
Rehabiah’s name joins the root for widening with the name of Yah: “Yah has made wide.” The verse places that name beside a line that grows from one son into very many, letting the name’s spaciousness echo in the family’s abundance.
ALSO GROWS
rāḥab: To be wide or grow spacious.
רָחַב
The root gives Rehabiah’s name its sense of widening.
merḥav: A broad place or open space.
מֶרְחָב
This branch appears in the image of being brought into a “large place,” where constriction gives way to room.
hirḥiv: To enlarge or widen.
הִרְחִיב
This form names the act of making room, a widening that lets a line or life extend beyond its former bounds.
THE PATTERN
Widening makes room for life to flourish and for others to be received.
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.THE THREAD
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.Rehabiah’s name carries רחב (raḥab, to widen), the same root heard in Rehoboth and “made room.” Both verses place widening beside fruitfulness: here it is carried in a name and a growing family line; there it is spoken over an open place and the life to come from it.
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