What Does 1 Chronicles 28:14 Mean in the King James?
He gave of gold by weight for things of gold, for all instruments of all manner of service; silver also for all instruments of silver by weight, for all instruments of every kind of service:
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 translated “service” also means work, binding sacred purpose to measured, material labor.
THE MEANING
The work that gives your life its shape is not abstract: it takes form through actual tools, resources, and acts fitted to their use. What is set apart for service is counted and weighed, letting the sacred appear in the ordinary measure of what is given and used.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Sacred service is not weightless or detached from material life; it takes tools and resources apportioned to real uses.
THE ROOT
עֲבֹדָה
avodah
GROWS FROM
עבד
To work or serve.
The Hebrew word עֲבֹדָה (avodah, work or service) joins labor with service rendered at the sanctuary. The verse’s service is therefore not an abstraction: it takes material form through tools and measured provision.
ALSO GROWS
ʿavad: To work or serve.
עָבַד
This verb carries the same work-and-service sense into the action behind the verse’s provision.
ʿeved: A servant or worker.
עֶבֶד
The servant is one who performs the work that עֲבֹדָה names.
avodah: Work, service, or worship rendered through service.
עֲבֹדָה
This is the word used for the service the instruments are meant to support.
מִשְׁקָל
mishqal
GROWS FROM
שקל
To weigh, weigh out, or measure.
מִשְׁקָל (mishqal, weight) comes from the root שׁקל (sh-q-l, to weigh). The verse’s repeated weighing shows provision being measured in relation to the work it serves.
ALSO GROWS
shaqal: To weigh or weigh out.
שָׁקַל
The verb makes the act behind “by weight” visible: the materials are apportioned through weighing.
sheqel: A unit of weight; a shekel.
שֶׁקֶל
This branch shows how weighing becomes a concrete measure for material provision.
THE PATTERN
Resources take their meaning as they are apportioned to the work each part is given to serve.
And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.THE THREAD
And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the LORD’s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.The word translated “service” here is עֲבֹדָה (avodah, work or service), the same root-family that appears in 1 Chronicles 28:14. The connected verse shows that this service includes both a purpose and the tangible work and resources that make it possible.
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