What Does 1 Chronicles 25:27 Mean in the King James?

The twentieth to Eliathah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

1 Chronicles 25:27 · 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

This roster gives a named household a distinct place and counts it as a whole within the larger order.

THE MEANING

Your place within a larger whole does not have to erase your distinctness: the verse names Eliathah and counts his household as twelve. It holds particularity and belonging together.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The lie that belonging to a larger order makes your place anonymous.

THE ROOT

בָּנָיו

banav

GROWS FROM

בנה

b-n-h

banah: to build or establish.

“sons” in this verse is banav. The Hebrew word for “son” is connected with ⁨בָּנָה⁩ (banah, build), bringing household building into this count. Eliathah’s place includes a whole family unit, not just one name in a list.

ALSO GROWS

banah: To build or establish.

בָּנָה

Its connection to ⁨בֵּן⁩ (ben, son) links family with what is built and carried forward.

binyan: A building or structure.

בִּנְיָן

The word makes the root’s building sense visible: this household has a distinct place within an ordered whole.

THE PATTERN

Shared service gives each household a distinct place while counting each as part of a whole.

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

1 Chronicles 25:8 · KJVDifferent places in the service are assigned within one shared order.

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

Romans 12:4 · KJVDistinct roles belong together within one body.

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 particular place within the whole.

THE THREAD

But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

1 Corinthians 12:18 · KJV

This roster makes each household’s place visible within shared service. The body image shows the same structure: distinct members belong to one whole without becoming interchangeable.

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