What Does 1 Chronicles 28:17 Mean in the King James?

Also pure gold for the fleshhooks, and the bowls, and the cups: and for the golden basons he gave gold by weight for every bason; and likewise silver by weight for every bason of silver:

1 Chronicles 28:17 · KJV

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THE KEY

The Hebrew word for “weight” (⁨מִשְׁקָל⁩, mishqal) shares its root with “shekel” (⁨שֶׁקֶל⁩, sheqel), so every basin receives a countable share of value.

THE MEANING

What is set apart takes shape in specific materials and measures; here, gold and silver are assigned basin by basin. Value is not an abstract store of abundance but a definite portion matched to each vessel.

THE ROOT

מִשְׁקָל

mishqal

GROWS FROM

שקל

sh-q-l

To weigh; to measure by weighing.

Mishqal names measured weight, while shaqal names the act of weighing and sheqel makes weight a countable unit. The root holds action, standard, and portion together: each basin receives a definite share.

ALSO GROWS

shaqal: To weigh.

שָׁקַל

This verb names the action behind the measured weight assigned to each basin.

sheqel: A shekel, a unit of weight and value.

שֶׁקֶל

The unit makes weight countable, echoing the specific portion given to every basin.

THE PATTERN

Provision takes shape when resources are measured and assigned to the purpose they serve.

Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.

Exodus 25:39 · KJVThe gold is specified by measure and connected to the vessels it is meant to supply.

And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:

Ezra 8:25 · KJVThe materials and vessels are weighed as distinct portions for their shared purpose.

Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judæa:

Acts 11:29 · KJVThe relief is apportioned according to what each person can provide.

THE THREAD

And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.

Genesis 23:16 · KJV

The same ⁨שקל⁩ (sh-q-l), “weigh,” root is present when Abraham weighs out silver. Both verses make value tangible through measured quantity, turning silver from an abstract store into a specified amount.

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