What Does 1 Chronicles 26:4 Mean in the King James?
Moreover the sons of Obed-edom were, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,
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 names preserve testimony inside this family line: Yah hears, and God gives.
THE MEANING
You meet a family line in which each son remains a distinct person, not just a count. Shemaiah carries “Yah has heard,” and Nethaneel carries “God has given,” weaving hearing and giving into the way this family is named.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A genealogy is only a tally, and a name is only a label.
THE ROOT
שְׁמַעְיָה
Shema'yah
GROWS FROM
שמע
shamaʿ: hear, listen.
Shemaiah joins hearing to Yah: “Yah has heard.” English leaves this as a proper name, while the name itself carries a sentence about hearing.
ALSO GROWS
shamaʿ: hear, listen
שָׁמַע
This verb is the seed in Shemaiah, making hearing part of the name’s meaning.
shomea: one who hears; a listener
שֹׁמֵעַ
This form shows the same root describing a person by their relation to hearing.
נְתַנְאֵל
Nethan'el
GROWS FROM
נתן
nathan: give, set, place.
Nethaneel means “God has given,” with nathan as its seed: to give, set, or place. The name presents this son as something given, not merely an item in a count.
ALSO GROWS
nathan: give, set, place
נָתַן
This is the root action within Nethaneel’s name: God gives.
mattanah: gift
מַתָּנָה
This noun from the same root makes explicit the sense of something given that the name carries.
THE PATTERN
A person’s name can compress a defining act or quality into a few syllables.
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.THE THREAD
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.Genesis 30:6 uses שמע (shamaʿ, hear) and נתן (nathan, give), the same roots carried by Shemaiah and Nethaneel. In Rachel’s sentence, hearing and giving meet in the arrival of a son.
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