What Does 1 Chronicles 26:15 Mean in the King James?
To Obed-edom southward; and to his sons the house of Asuppim.
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
Asuppim carries the sense of gathered things, turning this gate into the threshold of a place where what is collected has a home and keepers.
THE MEANING
A place of gathering is never just a pile: what has been brought together has a house and appointed care. The post belongs to the sons of Obed-edom, “servant of Edom”, so service is written into the keeper’s name. Gathering and keeping are part of one ordered movement.
THE ROOT
הָאֲסֻפִּים
ha’asuppim
GROWS FROM
אסף
Gather, collect, take in.
The name Asuppim comes from the root for gathering, so the English proper name preserves a hidden image: a house for what has been brought together. The verse links gathering with a place and people entrusted to its care.
ALSO GROWS
asaph: Gather or collect.
אָסַף
The same root names the action behind Asuppim: what comes together is given a place.
asuppah: A gathering, collection, or assembly.
אֲסֻפָּה
This related form makes the place-name’s gathering sense audible beneath the English transliteration.
עֹבֵד־אֱדוֹם
ʿOved-ʾEdom
GROWS FROM
עבד
Work or serve.
“Obed-edom” in this verse is ʿOved-ʾEdom. Obed means “servant” or “one who serves,” so the name itself carries the language of service. In this verse, that name stands beside a household assigned to the care of the gathered place.
ALSO GROWS
ʿavad: Work or serve.
עָבַד
The verb shows the action held within Obed’s name.
ʿeved: Servant.
עֶבֶד
This noun makes the service in the name explicit and echoes the household’s assigned keeping.
THE PATTERN
What is gathered or received is entrusted to a place and people responsible for its care.
For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the corn, of the new wine, and the oil, unto the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the porters, and the singers: and we will not forsake the house of our God.As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.THE THREAD
Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice.“Gather” translates אָסַף (asaph), the same root carried in Asuppim. The verse here names a house for gathered things; the Psalm uses that root for people gathered to God.
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