What Does 1 Chronicles 25:15 Mean in the King James?

The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:15 · 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

Jeshaiah, “Yah is deliverance”, is named individually, then held within the shared count of his family.

THE MEANING

Jeshaiah remains distinct by name while his sons and brothers belong to the same count of twelve. The verse holds individual identity and shared belonging together.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Belonging does not require a person to disappear into the group.

THE ROOT

יְשַׁעְיָהוּ

Yəšaʿyāhû

GROWS FROM

ישע

y-sh-ʿ

Deliver; bring out of constriction into spaciousness.

Jeshaiah’s name joins the root ⁨יָשַׁע⁩ (yāšaʿ, deliver) with Yah, carrying the sense “Yah delivers” or “Yah is deliverance.” That name sits among his sons and brothers, so the verse holds deliverance’s nature within a shared family count.

ALSO GROWS

yāšaʿ: To deliver, rescue, or bring out into spaciousness.

יָשַׁע

This verb is the seed within Jeshaiah’s name: deliverance is part of the name’s nature.

yeshuʿah: Deliverance, rescue.

יְשׁוּעָה

This noun makes explicit the same deliverance carried in Jeshaiah’s name.

Yēšūaʿ: Yeshua; a name formed from the same deliverance root.

יֵשׁוּעַ

The shared root links Jeshaiah’s name to the name Yeshua, keeping the language of deliverance visible across both names.

THE PATTERN

Distinct people are gathered into a shared whole without losing their place within it.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

Psalm 68:6 · KJVThe solitary is placed within a family, making belonging a form of being gathered into a whole.

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 distinct place within the body, as Jeshaiah is named within the count of his family.

THE THREAD

Salvation belongeth unto the LORD: thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.

Psalm 3:8 · KJV

“Salvation” translates ⁨יְשׁוּעָה⁩ (yeshuʿah, deliverance), from the same root ⁨ישע⁩ (y-sh-ʿ, deliver) carried in Jeshaiah’s name. Psalm 3:8 states openly what his name holds in compressed form: deliverance belongs to the LORD.

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