What Does 1 Chronicles 25:16 Mean in the King James?

The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:16 · 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

Mattaniah’s name means “Yah has given,” so this roster places a name of gift inside an exact count.

THE MEANING

Mattaniah holds the ninth place, together with his sons and brothers, twelve in all. His name carries the sense “Yah has given” or “gift of Yah,” setting the language of giving beside the household’s counted place.

THE ROOT

מַתַּנְיָהוּ

Mattanyāhū

GROWS FROM

נתן

To give, set, or place.

Mattaniah’s name carries the sense “Yah has given” or “gift of Yah,” with its gift-language growing from ⁨נתן⁩ (nātan, to give). The name holds together the act of giving and what is given, a connection English names can leave hidden.

ALSO GROWS

nātan: To give, set, or place.

נָתַן

The verb names the act at the seed of Mattaniah’s gift-bearing name.

mattān: Gift.

מַתָּן

This noun names what is given, carrying the same root from the act of giving into its result.

mattānāh: Gift, present.

מַתָּנָה

This form makes the name’s gift-language concrete: what is given can be received and held.

THE PATTERN

A place in shared service belongs within an ordered whole and is carried in relationship.

And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

1 Chronicles 25:8 · KJVThe turns are ordered across the group, with every role placed within the 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 place within a body whose life is shared.

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 4:10 · KJVA received gift finds its place as something shared with others.

THE THREAD

And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

Genesis 30:18 · KJV

Mattaniah’s name carries the gift-language built from ⁨נתן⁩ (nātan, “to give”). Leah’s “God hath given me” uses that same root, opening the name’s compressed meaning into the act of giving.

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