What Does 1 Chronicles 26:11 Mean in the King James?
Hilkiah the second, Tebaliah the third, Zechariah the fourth: all the sons and brethren of Hosah were thirteen.
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 roster gathers Hosah’s whole household beneath a name linked to seeking refuge.
THE MEANING
You are seen here within belonging: names are joined to kinship and gathered into one count. Hosah’s name echoes refuge, giving that household the image of shelter.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that belonging is incidental to identity: the verse names the kin and counts them together.
THE ROOT
חוֹסָה
Ḥôsāh
GROWS FROM
חסה
To seek refuge or take shelter.
Hosah echoes חָסָה (chasah), “to seek refuge,” whose noun branch מַחֲסֶה (machaseh) means “refuge” or “shelter.” The root holds both the act of taking shelter and the shelter itself, giving the household’s name a sound of protection.
ALSO GROWS
chasah: To seek refuge, take shelter.
חָסָה
The verb gives Hosah’s name its association with seeking refuge.
machaseh: Refuge, shelter.
מַחֲסֶה
This noun names the shelter toward which the root’s action moves.
chosim: Those who take refuge.
חֹסִים
This plural form evokes people gathered under shelter, echoing the household named in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Shared service is carried by distinct people gathered into ordered households.
All these of the sons of Obed-edom: they and their sons and their brethren, able men for strength for the service, were threescore and two of Obed-edom.And they shall keep his charge, and the charge of the whole congregation before the tabernacle of the congregation, to do the service of the tabernacle.So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.THE THREAD
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be overpast.Hosah echoes חָסָה (chasah), “to seek refuge.” Psalm 57:1 uses that same Hebrew verb for both “trusteth” and “refuge,” revealing trust as taking shelter beneath the wings.
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