What Does 1 Chronicles 25:14 Mean in the King James?

The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:14 · 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

Shared service takes shape here through a named household: Jesharelah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve in all.

THE MEANING

You see a shared work with a name and a count: Jesharelah, his sons, and his brothers, twelve in all. The household has a distinct place within the larger service, and the collective does not blur the people who make it up.

THE ROOT

יְשַׁרְאֵלָה

Yesharelah

GROWS FROM

ישר

To be straight, level, or upright.

Jesharelah is commonly understood as joining ⁨יָשָׁר⁩ (yāšār, upright or straight) with ⁨אֵל⁩ (ʾēl, God), with the sense “God is upright.” The name carries uprightness into this household’s appointed place in the service.

ALSO GROWS

yāšār: Straight, upright.

יָשָׁר

This is the root’s basic quality, carried in the name Jesharelah.

yĕšārîm: The upright.

יְשָׁרִים

Psalm 33:1 uses this form for those among whom praise is fitting, linking the root’s uprightness with praise.

THE PATTERN

Shared service takes shape through distinct people gathered into particular places.

So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs of the LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.

1 Chronicles 25:7 · KJVThe singers are a counted company, with their brothers sharing instruction and skill in the songs.

From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that came to do the service of the ministry, and the service of the burden in the tabernacle of the congregation,

Numbers 4:47 · KJVThose who take up the ministry and its burdens are counted as particular participants in a shared service.

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:18 · KJVEach member has a particular place within the body, making the whole from distinct parts.

THE THREAD

Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

Psalm 33:1 · KJV

“The upright” translates ⁨יְשָׁרִים⁩ (yĕšārîm), from the same root ⁨ישר⁩ (yashar) carried in Jesharelah’s name. Here the root joins uprightness with praise, opening the name’s resonance within this roster of singers.

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