What Does 1 Chronicles 3:18 Mean in the King James?
Malchiram also, and Pedaiah, and Shenazar, Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Nedabiah.
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
Several names in this list carry a message: Yah is named as the one who ransoms, establishes, and gives freely.
THE MEANING
These names carry their own claims: Yah ransoms, establishes, and gives freely. The verse places those meanings within one line of descent, so the list is not only a sequence of people but also a sequence of meanings.
THE ROOT
פְּדָיָה
Pedāyāh
GROWS FROM
פדה
p-d-h
To ransom or redeem; to reclaim someone from a claim or bond.
Pedaiah joins pādâ, “to ransom,” to Yah (יָהּ, Yāh, a shortened form of the divine name): the name says, “Yah has ransomed.” The English name reads as a label, while its Hebrew form places reclaiming inside the line as an act attributed to God.
ALSO GROWS
pādâ: To ransom or redeem.
פָּדָה
This is the verbal action compressed into Pedaiah’s name.
peduyei: Ransomed ones, as in Isaiah 35:10.
פְּדוּיֵי
The same root opens the name’s compact claim into a people who are ransomed.
pidyon: Ransom or redemption.
פִּדְיוֹן
This noun names the reclaiming that the root carries as an action.
יְקַמְיָה
Yeqamyāh
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
To rise, stand, or be established.
Jecamiah joins the same Yah (יָהּ, Yāh, a shortened form of the divine name) to qum: the name means “Yah establishes” or “Yah raises up.” Beside Pedaiah, it makes the line’s language active: one name speaks of ransoming, another of making something stand.
ALSO GROWS
qum: To rise or stand.
קוּם
This is the root’s basic movement, carried in Jecamiah’s name as Yah raising someone up.
heqim: To raise up or establish.
הֵקִים
This causative form shows how the root can mean more than standing: it can mean making something stand.
נְדַבְיָה
Nedavyāh
GROWS FROM
נדב
n-d-b
To volunteer or give willingly.
Nedabiah joins Yah (יָהּ, Yāh, a shortened form of the divine name) to nadab, the movement of willing giving; the name can mean “Yah gives freely.” Alongside the names for ransoming and establishing, it adds generosity as another action carried within this genealogy.
ALSO GROWS
nadab: To offer or volunteer willingly.
נָדַב
The name carries this root’s quality of willing action.
nedavah: A freewill offering.
נְדָבָה
This branch makes the root’s willing generosity concrete as something freely given.
nadiv: Willing, generous, or noble.
נָדִיב
The root also describes the character of one who gives freely, not only the act of giving.
THE PATTERN
Scripture lets a name carry the nature of its bearer, so a list of names can speak through what those names mean.
And Adam called his wife’s name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.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 she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.THE THREAD
And the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.Pedaiah is built from פדה (p-d-h, ransom or redeem), the same root behind “ransomed” here. The name holds the claim in one person, “Yah has ransomed”, while Isaiah opens it into a whole people returning.
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