What Does 1 Chronicles 3:15 Mean in the King James?
And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.
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 four names gather favor, raising, alignment, and wholeness into a single family line.
THE MEANING
Johanan carries YHWH’s favor, Jehoiakim YHWH’s raising, and Zedekiah YHWH’s alignment; Shallum carries a root that holds wholeness and recompense together. Read this way, the verse holds more than a record of descent: each name carries meaning within the line.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
These names are only sounds, and the verse contains nothing beyond who belongs to whom.
THE ROOT
שַׁלּוּם
Shallum
GROWS FROM
שׁלם
š-l-m
To be whole or complete; to make good or repay.
Shallum carries a root that joins wholeness with making good what is owed. The English name preserves the sound but leaves that connection hidden.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness; peace.
שָׁלוֹם
This branch shows the root’s sense of being whole, which also appears in Shallum.
shillem: Repaid; made good or settled.
שִׁלֵּם
This branch shows how the same root can express making good what is owed.
shalem: Whole; complete.
שָׁלֵם
This form makes the root’s connection to completeness explicit.
יְהוֹיָקִים
Yehoyaqim
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
To rise or stand; to raise or establish.
Jehoiakim’s name carries the sense that YHWH raises or establishes. The root holds both rising and causing to stand, so the name contains an action as well as a state.
ALSO GROWS
qum: Rise; stand.
קוּם
This is the root’s basic motion, present within the name’s sense of being raised.
heqim: Raised; established.
הֵקִים
This causative form shows the root’s sense of making someone or something stand.
צִדְקִיָּהוּ
Tsidqiyahu
GROWS FROM
צדק
ts-d-q
Alignment; being in the right order.
Zedekiah carries the claim of alignment in relation to YHWH. English gives the name as a sound, while the Hebrew keeps that claim within it.
ALSO GROWS
tsedeq: Rightness; alignment.
צֶדֶק
This branch names the root’s central sense, carried within Zedekiah.
tsedaqah: Justice; right action.
צְדָקָה
This branch shows alignment expressed in action.
THE PATTERN
A scriptural name can preserve a claim about a person or God’s action within a single word.
Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.The word “peace” is שָׁלוֹם (shalom), meaning wholeness, from the same root שׁלם (š-l-m) carried by Shallum. That root also holds the sense of making good what is owed, so the name echoes a wholeness that includes what has been made right.
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