What Does 1 Chronicles 26:5 Mean in the King James?

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.

1 Chronicles 26:5 · KJV

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 blessing is made visible in eight distinct sons, each given a place and a name.

THE MEANING

Here, blessing takes shape among people: each son is counted in order and called by name. The verse speaks now of abundance that does not blur the distinct lives gathered around one person.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

Blessing is only an invisible status, disconnected from tangible life. Here it is attached to a household whose members can be named.

THE ROOT

בֵּרַךְ

barakh

GROWS FROM

ברך

To bless; the same consonants also appear in the Hebrew word for knee.

“blessed” in this verse is barakh. The blessing word shares its consonants with ⁨בֶּרֶךְ⁩ (berekh), meaning “knee,” preserving a bodily echo of bending within the language. Here, blessing is not left abstract: it is visible in a household of named lives.

ALSO GROWS

berakhah: blessing

בְּרָכָה

This noun from the same root makes explicit the blessing named in the verse.

berekh: knee

בֶּרֶךְ

Its shared consonants give the blessing word a bodily echo of bending or kneeling.

THE PATTERN

Blessing takes visible form in life that grows and is named.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:28 · KJVBlessing is joined to fruitfulness and multiplication, as it is in the household named here.

Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.

Psalm 127:3 · KJVThe verse presents children as a tangible form of life received as a gift.

And she spake out with a loud voice, and said, Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.

Luke 1:42 · KJVBlessing is spoken over a person and made visible in the life carried within her.

THE THREAD

And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

Genesis 12:2 · KJV

“Bless” and “blessing” here share the root ⁨ברך⁩ (barakh) with “blessed” in this verse. Genesis shows blessing extending outward into a blessing for others; here its shape is visible in a household of eight sons.

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