What Does 1 Chronicles 24:29 Mean in the King James?

Concerning Kish: the son of Kish was Jerahmeel.

1 Chronicles 24:29 · KJV

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 genealogy’s only named continuation is Jerahmeel, “May God show compassion,” weaving compassion into the line rather than adding it as commentary.

THE MEANING

You meet this family line through a name formed from compassion: Jerahmeel means “May God show compassion.” Even where the verse records only descent, that name carries compassion into the line as a nature held in its naming.

THE ROOT

יְרַחְמְאֵל

Yeraḥmeʾel

GROWS FROM

ר־ח־ם

To show tender compassion.

Jerahmeel joins ⁨אֵל⁩ (ʾel, God) to the root ⁨רחם⁩ (r-ḥ-m, compassion), giving the name the sense “May God show compassion.” The genealogy preserves more than descent: it places a compassion-bearing name in the line.

ALSO GROWS

raḥamim: Compassion, tender mercy.

רַחֲמִים

This noun names the compassion invoked in Jerahmeel’s name.

raḥum: Compassionate, merciful.

רַחוּם

This same root describes God as compassionate in Exodus 34:6.

reḥem: Womb.

רֶחֶם

The shared root gives compassion a visceral image of care that shelters life.

THE PATTERN

A name in Scripture can carry a nature or calling into a person’s place in the story.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:5 · KJVAbraham’s name is given with the nature of his calling: father of many nations.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVJesus’s name is tied directly to the work his name carries.

And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

John 1:42 · KJVSimon receives a name whose meaning gives a new nature to how he is seen in the story.

THE THREAD

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Exodus 34:6 · KJV

Jerahmeel’s name carries the root ⁨רחם⁩ (r-ḥ-m, compassion), the same root heard in ⁨רַחוּם⁩ (raḥum, compassionate) in this verse. The compassion embedded in one person’s name is also language for God’s nature.

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