What Does 1 Chronicles 25:24 Mean in the King James?

The seventeenth to Joshbekashah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:24 · 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

The word for “sons” belongs to the Hebrew root ⁨בנה⁩ (banah), “to build,” so this count presents a household as a structure of shared service.

THE MEANING

You are counted within shared service: the named person stands with his sons and brothers as one company of twelve. The count holds individual identity and kinship together, making belonging visible within the work.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the assumption that a named place in service is solitary: the count includes his family in the same company.

THE ROOT

בָּנָיו

banav

GROWS FROM

בנה

to build, construct

The word for “sons” belongs to the consonantal family of ⁨בנה⁩ (banah), “to build.” Beside the brothers and the count of twelve, that root lets the family appear as a built company gathered for shared service.

ALSO GROWS

banah: to build

בָּנָה

This verb makes the building sense of the root explicit.

mivneh: structure, form

מִבְנֶה

This word names an arrangement formed by building, echoing the people gathered into one counted company.

THE PATTERN

Shared service takes shape as people are gathered and ordered into a larger 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:

1 Chronicles 25:1 · KJVThe verse places named families and their musical work within an ordered service.

A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!

Psalm 133:1 · KJVBrothers gathered together express the kinship held within this company.

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 shared whole, as each person is counted within this group.

THE THREAD

Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:

Proverbs 24:3 · KJV

The word “builded” comes from the same Hebrew root ⁨בנה⁩ (banah), “to build,” associated with “sons” here. That shared root opens the count as a household formed into a company, rather than a bare tally of individuals.

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