What Does 1 Chronicles 24:17 Mean in the King James?
The one and twentieth to Jachin, the two and twentieth to Gamul,
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 names turn a bare roster into a language of establishment and full measure.
THE MEANING
This verse gives two distinct places in one ordered service: Jachin means “he establishes,” while Gamul carries a root used for recompense and weaning. The names make the sequence more than numbers, holding establishment and completion within the same order.
THE ROOT
יָכִין
Yāḵîn
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To be established, made firm, or prepared.
Jachin is a name shaped like an action: “he establishes.” The same root gives words for preparing something and for a fixed place, so the name evokes a place made firm within a larger order.
ALSO GROWS
hēḵîn: To prepare or establish.
הֵכִין
This verb makes explicit the active sense compressed into the name Jachin.
māḵôn: An established place or foundation.
מָכוֹן
The root’s movement from establishing to a settled place echoes each course’s named place in the roster.
גָּמוּל
Gāmūl
GROWS FROM
גמל
gamal
A root used for recompensing or repaying, and for weaning.
The name Gamul comes from a root used both for recompense and for a child weaned from milk. Those branches carry the sense of a return received or a stage completed, while the verse leaves the name’s particular shade open.
ALSO GROWS
gemul: A return, reward, or due treatment.
גְּמוּל
This is the recompense sense carried by the name Gamul.
gāmal: To wean a child from milk.
גָּמַל
The same root also marks a transition into a completed stage, adding another layer to the name’s range.
THE PATTERN
A shared work holds distinct places in an order, and each place contributes to the whole.
And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan: and in the hearts of all that are wise hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded thee;But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.THE THREAD
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz.Jachin appears again as the name of a temple pillar, carrying the sense “he establishes.” The name in this roster and the name on the pillar share the root of establishing, making the roster’s name echo a structure made firm.
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