What Does 1 Chronicles 29:8 Mean in the King James?
And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house of the LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
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 treats generosity as a change of custody: what is precious enters a shared treasury without losing its worth.
THE MEANING
A thing can be precious and still be given; its value is not erased when its custody changes. The gift moves from individual keeping into a treasury where it can serve a shared purpose. It reaches that store through a named hand, joining generosity with careful keeping.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse loosens the belief that a precious thing loses its worth once it leaves your hands.
THE ROOT
נָתְנוּ
natnu
GROWS FROM
נתן
Give, set, place.
“Gave” comes from נָתַן (natan), a root that holds giving and placing together. The stones are not made less precious by the transfer; they are placed where their value can serve beyond the individual holder.
ALSO GROWS
mattanah: Gift
מַתָּנָה
A gift is something given and placed into another’s keeping.
natan: Give, set, place
נָתַן
The same verb family makes the transfer concrete: giving is also a placement.
יְקָרוֹת
yeqarot
GROWS FROM
יקר
Be costly, valuable, esteemed.
The word for precious stones comes from יָקָר (yaqar), a root of costliness and esteem. The verse lets material value and honor touch: what is precious is entrusted to a purpose that matters.
ALSO GROWS
yaqar: Precious, costly
יָקָר
It names the stones’ material value as something recognized and held in esteem.
yeqar: Worth, honor
יְקָר
The same root can express honor, linking the stones’ price with the esteem carried by their use.
אֹצָר
otsar
GROWS FROM
אצר
Store up, gather into reserve.
“treasure” in this verse is otsar. אֹצָר (otsar) means a treasury or storehouse, from אצר (ʾ-ṣ-r), to store or gather into reserve. The stones pass from personal possession into kept resources, where their value can support a shared work.
ALSO GROWS
otsar: Treasury, storehouse, treasure
אֹצָר
It names the place where separate gifts are gathered and kept.
atsar: Store up, gather into reserve
אָצַר
The related verb shows the treasury as gathered value held for later use.
THE PATTERN
What is freely placed into shared keeping becomes provision for common work and need.
The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.And laid them down at the apostles’ feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.THE THREAD
But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.The same root נתן (natan), “give, set, place,” appears in “gave” here and “given” there. The companion verse opens the transfer further: what is given already comes from God, so the treasury receives something entrusted rather than something created from nothing.
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