What Does 1 Chronicles 25:30 Mean in the King James?

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

1 Chronicles 25:30 · 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

Mahazioth, the name at the center of this count, carries the Hebrew root for seeing and vision.

THE MEANING

This verse gives the twenty-third place in the order of service to Mahazioth, then counts him, his sons, and his brothers together as twelve. His name carries the idea of seeing, while the count shows a household occupying its place within a larger order.

THE ROOT

מַחֲזִיאוֹת

Maḥazioth

GROWS FROM

חזה

To see, behold, or receive a vision.

The name Mahazioth is derived from ⁨חזה⁩, so it carries seeing and vision as part of its nature. The roster places this name beside a household counted together, keeping vision and shared service in the same line.

ALSO GROWS

ḥozeh: A seer; one who beholds.

חֹזֶה

This form preserves all three consonants of ⁨חזה⁩ and names a person by the act of seeing.

maḥazeh: A vision or sight.

מַחֲזֶה

This word also carries the root’s three consonants, giving the name Mahazioth a direct connection to vision.

THE PATTERN

A name in Scripture can carry the nature or calling of the person it identifies.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:5 · KJVAbraham’s new name carries the nature of the fatherhood named in the verse.

And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.

Genesis 25:26 · KJVJacob’s name echoes the heel his hand holds, joining the name to the scene that introduces him.

And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.

John 1:42 · KJVCephas is given as a name whose meaning, stone, is stated in the verse itself.

THE THREAD

And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

Exodus 24:11 · KJV

Mahazioth is derived from ⁨חזה⁩, the root behind “they saw” here. The same root makes the name’s vision meaning concrete: seeing is something beheld.

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