What Does 1 Chronicles 27:31 Mean in the King James?

And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David’s.

1 Chronicles 27:31 · 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 king’s wealth becomes visible through the person entrusted with its most ordinary, living part.

THE MEANING

Your attention is drawn to a particular corner of the king’s possessions: the flocks have a named overseer. The property belongs to David, while care for it is assigned to Jaziz. Even this brief line makes stewardship concrete: wealth includes living creatures that need someone’s attention.

THE ROOT

רְכוּשׁ

rekhush

GROWS FROM

רכש

Acquire or gain property

English “substance” can sound like an undifferentiated mass, but ⁨רְכוּשׁ⁩ (rekhush, possessions) is connected to ⁨רכש⁩ (r-k-sh), acquiring and gathering property. The flocks are one living part of those gathered holdings, placed under a named overseer.

ALSO GROWS

rekhush: Possessions or property

רְכוּשׁ

Genesis 12:5 uses this noun for the substance Abram’s household had gathered.

rakash: To acquire or gain

רָכַשׁ

Genesis 31:18 uses this verb for the goods Jacob had acquired, linking possessions with the act of gathering them.

THE PATTERN

A household’s wealth becomes a network of care when particular parts are placed under particular oversight.

Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint officers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt in the seven plenteous years.

Genesis 41:34 · KJVHere, stored abundance is managed through appointed officers responsible for a defined share.

Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

Proverbs 27:23 · KJVHere, oversight means attending closely to the condition of the animals themselves.

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 4:10 · KJVThe same structure extends to what each person receives and cares for in service to others.

THE THREAD

And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padan-aram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.

Genesis 31:18 · KJV

This verse uses the same ⁨רכוש⁩ (rekhush, possessions) as 1 Chronicles, alongside ⁨רכש⁩ (rakash, acquire) for the goods Jacob had gained. The flocks under Jaziz’s care are part of this accumulated property, now named within David’s household and assigned an overseer.

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