What Does 1 Chronicles 27:17 Mean in the King James?
Of the Levites, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel: of the Aaronites, Zadok:
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 roster’s names make service sound relational: Levi evokes joining, while Zadok carries the root of alignment.
THE MEANING
This verse names the people through whom a community’s work is carried: the Levites and Aaronites are distinct groups, and Hashabiah and Zadok are particular people within them. Their names hold echoes of joining, being considered, and alignment. The work is concrete, carried through identifiable people and relationships.
THE ROOT
לֵוִי
Lēwî
GROWS FROM
לוה
To join, attach, or accompany
The word rendered “Levites” comes from Levi, whose name is tied to being “joined” in Genesis 29:34. This does not redefine their role, but it lets the group name carry an undertone of attachment and shared belonging.
ALSO GROWS
lāwāh: To join or accompany
לָוָה
This verb supplies the root behind Levi’s name and gives “Levites” an echo of joining.
Lēwî: Levi; joined
לֵוִי
The group named in this verse carries the name associated with joining.
צָדוֹק
Ṣādōq
GROWS FROM
צדק
To be right or just; alignment
Zadok’s name comes from the צדק root, whose meanings include rightness and justice. The name therefore carries an echo of alignment within this list of named people.
ALSO GROWS
ṣedeq: Rightness, justice, alignment
צֶדֶק
This noun shares Zadok’s root and shows the wider field carried by his name.
ṣaddîq: A just or aligned person
צַדִּיק
This word names a person through the same root, echoing the personal quality carried in “Zadok.”
חֲשַׁבְיָהוּ
Ḥašavyāhû
GROWS FROM
חשב
To think, reckon, or consider
Hashabiah’s name joins the root of thinking or reckoning with the divine name: “YHWH has considered.” The name carries more than an identifier; it evokes attention and thought.
ALSO GROWS
ḥāšav: To think, reckon, or consider
חָשַׁב
This verb is the root within Hashabiah’s name.
maḥăšāvāh: A thought or plan
מַחְשָׁבָה
This noun grows from the same root and shows how it extends from considering into formed thought.
THE PATTERN
Shared work takes shape through distinct people set into particular relationships and roles.
Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may minister unto him.But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.THE THREAD
And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have born him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.The Hebrew behind “joined” is לָוָה (lāwāh), the same root echoed by Levi and “Levites” in the roster. The English group-name conceals that older undertone of joining and attachment.
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