What Does 1 Chronicles 24:23 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.
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 stand inside Hebron, “joining”, so this roster makes distinct identities visible as members of one connected household.
THE MEANING
You belong to a whole that still names you distinctly. The household is one lineage, yet each son has his own name and place: first, second, third, fourth. Belonging and distinction coexist.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Belonging requires becoming indistinguishable from everyone else.
THE ROOT
חֶבְרוֹן
Ḥeḇrôn
GROWS FROM
ח־ב־ר
ḥ-b-r
To join, associate, or form a company.
English leaves Hebron as a place-name, but its root carries the sense of joining. The sons are individually named within a household whose very name speaks of connection.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāḇar: To join or associate.
חָבַר
This verb makes the joining within Hebron’s name an action: distinct people can be brought into relation.
ḥāḇēr: A companion or associate.
חָבֵר
The root’s relational branch makes the lineage feel like a connected company, not just a sequence of names.
אֲמַרְיָה
Amaryāh
GROWS FROM
א־מ־ר
ʾ-m-r
To say or speak; the name means “YHWH has spoken.”
Amariah carries speech inside a personal name: the lineage includes the testimony that YHWH speaks. The list is more than a set of labels; its names hold meanings within them.
ALSO GROWS
ʾāmar: To say or speak.
אָמַר
The name’s first element comes from the language of speaking, making voice part of this household’s named inheritance.
ʾimrāh: A saying or utterance.
אִמְרָה
This branch turns speech into something carried forward, like a word preserved within a name.
THE PATTERN
Shared belonging holds distinct people together without erasing their names or places.
A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.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
The five curtains shall be coupled together one to another; and other five curtains shall be coupled one to another.The Hebrew word for “coupled together” comes from the same ח־ב־ר root carried in Hebron’s name. Exodus shows the root as an action: separate curtains are joined into one covering, just as these sons are named as distinct members of a connected household.
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