What Does 1 Chronicles 25:5 Mean in the King James?
All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.
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 horn raised here is strength made visible, and that strength is named alongside a life God gives.
THE MEANING
Here, sight is bound to the words of God, strength is raised, and Heman’s household is named as God’s gift. The verse speaks now of a life in which what is received can also become visible as strength.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that strength or fruitfulness must be self-made: Heman’s household is given by God, and the horn is lifted.
THE ROOT
קָרֶן
qeren
GROWS FROM
ק־ר־ן
Horn; by extension, strength expressed outwardly.
The horn is strength in visible form; the same consonants appear in qaran, “to send out rays.” The raised horn can carry both strength and its outward expression, dimensions English leaves in separate words.
ALSO GROWS
qarnayim: Horns
קַרְנַיִם
The plural keeps the concrete image of something projecting outward.
qaran: Radiate or send out rays
קָרַן
This related form links the horn’s projecting shape with visible radiance.
הֵימָן
Heman
GROWS FROM
א־מ־ן
To be firm, steady, or reliable.
Heman’s name is linked with aman, “to be firm, steady.” Beside the description “seer in the words of God,” that name carries steadiness as part of the identity this verse names.
ALSO GROWS
emunah: Trust; leaning your full weight on
אֱמוּנָה
It carries the root’s sense of steadiness into trust.
ne’eman: Reliable, steady
נֶאֱמָן
This form names the quality of being firm and dependable, echoing the nature carried in Heman’s name.
נָתַן
natan
GROWS FROM
נ־ת־ן
To give, set, or place.
“gave” in this verse is natan. The verse explicitly says God gives Heman his household. The related word for “gift” keeps receiving at the center of the statement.
ALSO GROWS
natan: Give, set, place
נָתַן
This is the verb the verse uses for what God does for Heman.
mattan: Gift
מַתָּן
This related noun makes the act of giving concrete: what is received is a gift.
THE PATTERN
The raised horn is an image of strength made visible.
And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in thy salvation.For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;THE THREAD
And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;Luke carries forward the same horn image and joins it to deliverance. That connection opens the phrase here: the horn is strength lifted into view, not merely a physical object.
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