What Does 1 Chronicles 27:6 Mean in the King James?
This is that Benaiah, who was mighty among the thirty, and above the thirty: and in his course was Ammizabad his son.
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
Benaiah’s name means “Yah has built,” and the verse gives that image shape: his might stands within an assigned division that also names his son.
THE MEANING
Your strength can be real and recognized while still belonging to a larger order of service. Your place is connected to other people and to what continues beyond you.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse loosens the belief that might makes someone self-contained: Benaiah is named through his rank, his division, and his son.
THE ROOT
בְּנָיָהוּ
Benayahu
GROWS FROM
בנה
The root בנה (b-n-h; banah) means to build; the name means “Yah has built.”
The name carries the image of building, and the verse names Benaiah’s son within his division. The root’s sense of building meets a concrete continuation in the verse, without reducing the son to a metaphor.
ALSO GROWS
banah: to build
בָּנָה
This is the verb at the heart of Benaiah’s name.
binyan: building, structure
בִּנְיָן
It makes the root’s building image visible as something formed and ordered.
גִּבּוֹר
gibbôr
GROWS FROM
גבר
The root גבר (g-b-r; gābar) means to be strong or prevail; גִּבּוֹר (gibbôr) means a mighty one.
“mighty” in this verse is gibbôr. The root holds might together with prevailing: strength is capacity to stand out or overcome. Here that strength is real, yet it is named within a group and a division.
ALSO GROWS
gābar: to be strong, prevail
גָּבַר
The verb reveals the action beneath the description of Benaiah as mighty.
gevûrāh: might, strength
גְּבוּרָה
This related form shows that the same root names strength as a quality, not only a person.
מַחֲלֹקֶת
maḥălōqet
GROWS FROM
חלק
The root חלק (ḥ-l-q; ḥālaq) means to divide or allot; מַחֲלֹקֶת (maḥălōqet) is a division or assigned group.
The word rendered “course” also carries the sense of a division or allotted share. It places Benaiah and his son within a defined part of the larger order.
ALSO GROWS
ḥālaq: to divide, allot
חָלַק
The verb supplies the root image behind the assigned division.
ḥēleq: portion, share
חֵלֶק
A division is also a portion: each course has a place within the whole.
THE PATTERN
Strength and responsibility take shape within an ordered place and can be entrusted onward through relationships.
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.THE THREAD
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.The same root גבר (g-b-r), “to be strong or prevail,” underlies “mighty” in both verses. Psalm 33:16 opens this roster entry further: might is recognized, but it does not make a person self-sufficient.
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