What Does 1 Chronicles 25:11 Mean in the King James?

The fourth to Izri, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:11 · 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 named leader is one voice in a twelve-person household, so the service belongs to the whole group.

THE MEANING

Your place in shared work can be carried by a company, not only by one standout person. Izri, his sons, and his brothers form one counted group within an ordered service. The verse gives the whole group a place in the work.

THE ROOT

יִצְרִי

Yitsri

GROWS FROM

יצר

Yatsar (⁨יָצַר⁩, to form or fashion).

Izri’s name carries the root of forming, the same root used when the LORD forms the human from the ground. Here the named person stands within a family group counted as a whole, a formed company sharing the service.

ALSO GROWS

yatsar: To form or fashion.

יָצַר

This is the root carried in Izri’s name and appears in Genesis when the human is formed.

yotser: One who forms; a potter.

יוֹצֵר

This branch makes the root’s image of shaping concrete: a group, like a vessel, takes shape as a whole.

THE PATTERN

Shared work takes shape through a counted group whose members belong to the whole.

These are those that were numbered, which Moses and Aaron numbered, and the princes of Israel, being twelve men: each one was for the house of his fathers.

Numbers 1:44 · KJVThe twelve men are counted together while each represents a family house.

And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles;

Luke 6:13 · KJVA shared mission takes shape through a named group of twelve.

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.

1 Corinthians 12:12 · KJVMany members carry one shared body, just as the verse presents a whole group in one place of service.

THE THREAD

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 2:7 · KJV

The word translated “formed” comes from yatsar, the root carried in Izri’s name. That echo links this named member of a counted household with the language of forming.

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