What Does 1 Chronicles 25:21 Mean in the King James?
The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:
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
Mattithiah’s name means “gift of Yah,” and the verse counts him with his sons and brothers: the gift-name stands within kinship.
THE MEANING
A distinct name and a shared place belong together here: Mattithiah is named, and he is counted with his sons and brothers as twelve. His name carries the meaning “gift of Yah,” placing the language of giving alongside the language of belonging.
THE ROOT
מַתִּתְיָהוּ
Mattityahu
GROWS FROM
נתן
n-t-n
Give, put, set in place.
Mattithiah means “gift of Yah,” so this distinct person is named through the language of giving. The verse counts him with his sons and brothers, placing that gift-name within a shared kinship.
ALSO GROWS
natan: Give, put, set.
נָתַן
This root holds giving and placing together, echoing a gift-name within an assigned place.
mattanah: Gift.
מַתָּנָה
This noun carries the gift-sense in Mattithiah’s name.
Netanyāhū: Yah has given.
נְתַנְיָהוּ
Nethaniah, named in the preceding entry, makes the same giving-root explicit.
THE PATTERN
A shared service takes shape as distinct people occupy named places within a counted whole.
Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.THE THREAD
Of the sons of Asaph; Zaccur, and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, the sons of Asaph under the hands of Asaph, which prophesied according to the order of the king.The name Nethaniah (נְתַנְיָהוּ, Netanyāhū, “Yah has given”) carries the same root נתן (n-t-n, “give, put, set”) as Mattithiah (מַתִּתְיָהוּ, Mattityahu, “gift of Yah”). The paired names place the language of giving among the people named within this shared service.
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