What Does 1 Chronicles 25:28 Mean in the King James?
The one and twentieth to Hothir, 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
Hothir’s name carries the root sense “he leaves what remains,” and his appointed turn counts an entire family of twelve.
THE MEANING
This verse meets you inside a larger order: one appointed turn names Hothir and counts his sons and brothers together as twelve. Hothir echoes the Hebrew root for what remains or abounds, so this bare roster holds continuity and shared service.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the assumption that a calling is carried by one named person alone: this entry includes the named musician and his kin as one counted company.
THE ROOT
הוֹתִיר
Hōtîr
GROWS FROM
יתר
y-t-r
Remain or be left over; in a causative form, leave something remaining or make abundant.
Hothir is formed from יתר, the root of what remains or is left in abundance. That seed turns a name in a roster into an image of continuity: the appointed turn holds not only one person, but his whole counted family.
ALSO GROWS
yāthar: Remain, be left over, abound.
יָתַר
This verb carries the basic sense inside Hothir’s name: what remains can continue and contribute.
yeter: Remainder, surplus, what is left over.
יֶתֶר
This noun makes the root’s image concrete: a remainder is something still present after the rest has passed.
yithrôn: Advantage, gain, profit.
יִתְרוֹן
The root can also name what remains as a gain, giving Hothir’s name a sense of enduring value.
THE PATTERN
Shared service takes shape when each turn is ordered and every member is counted within it.
And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.According to the commandment of the LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.THE THREAD
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.Hothir belongs to יתר (yāthar), the root behind וְהוֹתִרְךָ (vehōtirkha), “make thee plenteous,” in this verse. In Chronicles the root is compressed into a name within a counted company; here it names abundance extending through body, cattle, and ground.
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