What Does 1 Chronicles 23:23 Mean in the King James?
The sons of Mushi; Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.
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 verse counts three, yet names each one, so belonging is not reduced to a number.
THE MEANING
This verse places Mahli, Eder, and Jeremoth within Mushi’s family line and keeps the count visible: three. Each name remains distinct within that belonging.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that a family line matters only as a total: the verse records both the number and the names.
THE ROOT
בְּנֵי
bene
GROWS FROM
בנה
b-n-h
to build
בְּנֵי (bene, sons of) belongs to the word family of בָּנָה (banah, build). That connection gives descent the image of a structure taking shape across generations: these are named lives within a continuing family.
ALSO GROWS
banah: to build
בָּנָה
This verb supplies the building image carried by the word family.
binyan: building, structure
בִּנְיָן
This related noun makes the image concrete: a family line can be seen as a structure made of connected lives.
יְרֵמוֹת
Jeremoth
GROWS FROM
רום
r-w-m
to be high, to rise
The name יְרֵמוֹת (Jeremoth) belongs to the רום (rum, rise or be high) word family and carries the sense of heights or elevation. English keeps the name’s sound but not that image, so the list holds more than a count: it holds a name with its own meaning.
ALSO GROWS
ram: high, lofty
רָם
This adjective shows the height carried by the name’s root.
herim: raised, lifted up
הֵרִים
This verb shows the root in motion: what rises can also be raised.
THE PATTERN
Scripture keeps belonging visible by naming the people who carry a family or community forward.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.THE THREAD
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.Genesis 10:1 begins with the same word, “sons,” and names Noah’s three sons before describing the generations that follow. That shared wording places this count of three within a continuing line of named descendants.
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