What Does 1 Chronicles 27:13 Mean in the King James?
The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
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 word rendered “course” is his assigned division: this verse pictures shared service as a particular portion held within a larger order.
THE MEANING
Shared work holds together through a named person carrying one defined share in an ordered cycle. A particular share can be real and bounded at once; the whole remains larger than any one share.
THE ROOT
מַחְלַקְתּוֹ
maḥlaqto
GROWS FROM
חלק
ḥ-l-q
to divide, allot, or share out
The Hebrew word points to a division or service group, where “course” can sound like a path or sequence. It reveals a defined share within a larger arrangement.
ALSO GROWS
maḥăloqet: division, section, or group
מַחֲלֹקֶת
This related form makes the organized unit of service visible.
ḥēleq: share or portion
חֵלֶק
Each division holds a particular portion of the whole work.
מַהֲרַי
Maharai
GROWS FROM
מהר
m-h-r
to hasten or be swift
Maharai’s name carries the sense of swiftness or haste. That name stands within a measured cycle of monthly turns, holding quickness and order together.
ALSO GROWS
māhar: to hasten or hurry
מָהַר
This verb gives the name its sense of speed.
mehērāh: quickly or soon
מְהֵרָה
This related word carries the same swiftness into the idea of timing.
הַזַּרְחִי
ha-Zarḥi
GROWS FROM
זרח
z-r-ḥ
to rise or shine
“Zarhites” in this verse is ha-Zarḥi. Zarhite carries the name Zerah, from the root for rising or shining. The verse places the captain both within a named lineage and within a defined division of service.
ALSO GROWS
zāraḥ: to rise or shine
זָרַח
This verb gives the family name its image of rising light.
mizraḥ: east, the direction of sunrise
מִזְרָח
The east preserves the root’s association with the rising sun.
THE PATTERN
Shared service holds together through distinct people carrying defined portions in an ordered cycle.
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.And it came to pass, that while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office:THE THREAD
Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.Both verses use the same Hebrew word family for the divisions: this verse names one captain within the monthly cycle laid out in 27:1. Together they show an ordered whole made of distinct, bounded shares.
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