What Does 1 Chronicles 23:9 Mean in the King James?
The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the chief of the fathers of Laadan.
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
A family record carries a clue in Shelomith’s name: it grows from the root of wholeness.
THE MEANING
Shimei’s three sons are named within Laadan’s family line and identified as its leading fathers. Among them is Shelomith, a name carrying the sense of wholeness, held within this record of family and belonging.
THE ROOT
שְׁלֹמִית
Shelomith
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
sh-l-m
To be whole or complete; to bring something to wholeness.
Shelomith’s name carries the same root found in words for wholeness and well-being. English leaves that resonance quiet, but the name places wholeness among the people recorded as family heads.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
This familiar branch makes audible the sense of wholeness carried in Shelomith’s name.
shalem: Whole, complete, sound.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the root’s sense of completeness explicit.
shillem: To repay, restore, or make good.
שִׁלֵּם
The root also reaches toward restoring what is due, another way of bringing a matter to completion.
THE PATTERN
A lineage becomes legible through the names of its people and the roles they hold within it.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.These were the renowned of the congregation, princes of the tribes of their fathers, heads of thousands in Israel.The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
Behold, a son shall be born to thee, who shall be a man of rest; and I will give him rest from all his enemies round about: for his name shall be Solomon, and I will give peace and quietness unto Israel in his days.Shelomith and Solomon carry names from the same root, שׁלם (sh-l-m), wholeness. Here, Solomon’s name appears beside “peace and quietness,” making clear the sense of wholeness tucked into Shelomith’s name.
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