What Does 1 Chronicles 26:28 Mean in the King James?
And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated; and whosoever had dedicated any thing, it was under the hand of Shelomith, and of his brethren.
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 verse makes dedication concrete: what is set apart remains under the custody of named hands.
THE MEANING
What is set apart remains a real thing entrusted to real people. The verse places devotion within a living chain of care: the dedicated has a keeper.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It dissolves the idea that dedication makes something ownerless or removes it from responsibility; what is set apart still requires particular care.
THE ROOT
הַמַּקְדִּישׁ
hammaqdîš
GROWS FROM
קדשׁ
q-d-sh
To set apart, mark as distinct for sacred use.
“dedicated” in this verse is hammaqdîš. The root links the act of dedicating with both the set-apart thing and the sanctuary. Here, what is set apart does not become abstract: it remains material, entrusted to named custodians.
ALSO GROWS
qōdeš: A set-apart thing; sacredness.
קֹדֶשׁ
The dedicated items are things placed into a distinct sphere of use.
miqdāš: Sanctuary, a set-apart place.
מִקְדָּשׁ
The sanctuary and the dedicated goods share the same root of being set apart.
qādōš: Set apart.
קָדוֹשׁ
This branch names the quality carried by what has been dedicated.
שְׁלֹמִית
Shelomith
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
To be whole, complete, or intact.
“Shelomith” in this verse is Shelomith. The custodian’s name carries the sound and sense of wholeness. Beside the dedicated goods placed in his care, the name quietly echoes the wholeness that responsible keeping preserves.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, well-being.
שָׁלוֹם
The name’s root carries a sense of wholeness alongside the act of preserving dedicated things.
shalem: Whole, complete, intact.
שָׁלֵם
This branch makes the root’s sense of intactness audible in the name of the custodian.
THE PATTERN
Setting something apart changes its use and custody; the dedicated remains material, entrusted to care or service.
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.And brought in the offerings and the tithes and the dedicated things faithfully: over which Cononiah the Levite was ruler, and Shimei his brother was the next.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.THE THREAD
And the LORD spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.“Hallowed” belongs to the same קדשׁ (q-d-sh), “set apart,” root as “dedicated” in 1 Chronicles. Numbers makes explicit what “under the hand” carries here: set-apart things are placed in someone’s charge.
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