What Does 1 Chronicles 25:22 Mean in the King James?

The fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:22 · 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

Jeremoth’s place in the order holds both a name and a whole household: his sons and brothers are counted together as twelve.

THE MEANING

Your place can be particular and shared at once: Jeremoth is named, and his sons and brothers stand with him in the count. The number holds the household together without erasing the name.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Being part of a larger whole does not make your place or identity disappear.

THE ROOT

יְרֵמוֹת

Yĕrēmōṯ

GROWS FROM

רום

rum

Rise, be high, or be exalted.

Jeremoth carries the sense of heights or elevations from the root rum. Here that height is held within a place of shared service: sons and brothers stand within the same count.

ALSO GROWS

ram: High, lofty.

רָם

This adjective shares the root’s sense of elevation and echoes the height carried in Jeremoth’s name.

marom: Height, high place.

מָרוֹם

This noun makes the root’s upward movement a place, linking the name’s sense of elevation to a place held in the ordered roster.

THE PATTERN

A person’s place becomes visible within a counted whole that still holds names, households, and distinct roles.

And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their pedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.

Numbers 1:18 · KJVNames and family lines remain visible as the people are counted together.

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 distinct members belong to one body without losing their place within it.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:

Romans 12:4 · KJVThe shared whole holds different members and distinct roles.

THE THREAD

The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

1 Samuel 2:7 · KJV

The same root carried by Jeremoth appears in “lifteth up,” where it names rising or elevation. That echo lets the roster’s name carry the seed of height within its counted place among the people.

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