What Does 1 Chronicles 29:11 Mean in the King James?
Thine, O LORD, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O LORD, and thou art exalted as head above all.
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 verse gathers every force and splendor into one claim: heaven and earth, and the reign over them, belong to the LORD.
THE MEANING
Your world of power, beauty, achievement, and authority exists within what belongs to the LORD. Heaven and earth together sit under one head. Nothing stands outside that belonging.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that power, success, or authority can finally be self-originating or self-owned.
THE ROOT
הַמַּמְלָכָה
hamamlākāh
GROWS FROM
מלך
m-l-k
To reign, or to be king.
The word for kingdom grows from the root for reigning. The verse presents the LORD’s rule as belonging to the whole of heaven and earth, not as one territory among others.
ALSO GROWS
melekh: King
מֶלֶךְ
The king and the kingdom share the same root of reigning.
malkut: Kingship, kingdom
מַלְכוּת
This form makes the root’s sense of active rule visible within the idea of a kingdom.
לְרֹאשׁ
le-rosh
GROWS FROM
ראש
r-ʾ-sh
Head; first or chief.
Rosh holds bodily head, first place, and chief together. Calling the LORD head over all gathers the verse’s many forms of greatness under one source and highest place.
ALSO GROWS
rosh: Head, chief
רֹאשׁ
This is the word used for the LORD as head above all.
reshit: Beginning, first part
רֵאשִׁית
The same word family connects headship with what is first.
הַנֵּצַח
hanētsaḥ
GROWS FROM
נצח
n-ṣ-ḥ
Endurance, continuance, or prevailing; the noun can mean victory.
The word translated victory also carries the sense of endurance and continuance. Its place in this list gives victory a lasting dimension: the LORD’s prevailing belongs with the rule that encompasses all.
ALSO GROWS
netsaḥ: Victory, endurance, perpetuity
נֶצַח
The same word carries both victory and lasting continuance.
lānetsaḥ: Forever, perpetually
לָנֶצַח
This form makes the root’s sense of enduring continuance explicit.
THE PATTERN
Everything that exists and every form of rule remains within the LORD’s possession and sovereignty.
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fulness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.THE THREAD
Thy kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations.Both verses use the מלך (m-l-k) root for kingdom: the rule named here as belonging to the LORD appears there extending through every generation. The shared root ties universal sovereignty to a reign that continues through time.
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