What Does 1 Chronicles 4:21 Mean in the King James?

The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,

1 Chronicles 4:21 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The verse names fine-linen making with a word for work and service, so a household’s craft becomes part of how it serves.

THE MEANING

This verse holds a family line beside its craft: a household is known by the work it carries. Making fine linen is shared labor, gathered into the life of the house.

THE ROOT

עֲבֹדַת

avodat

GROWS FROM

עבד

avad

To work or serve.

“wrought” in this verse is avodat. The Hebrew phrase calls linen-making the house’s work, using the root that also means to serve. The craft is more than an output: it is a form of service carried by a household.

ALSO GROWS

avad: To work, serve, or till.

עָבַד

This verb shows the shared root’s range: labor can be service, as well as the work of cultivating or making.

eved: A servant or worker.

עֶבֶד

This related noun names one who serves, tying the household’s work to people who carry it out.

THE PATTERN

Work becomes service when skill is carried into a shared purpose.

Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.

Exodus 35:35 · KJVSkilled making, including work in fine linen, is presented as a craft put to use.

As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

1 Peter 4:10 · KJVA received capacity becomes service shared with others.

THE THREAD

And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

Genesis 2:15 · KJV

The Hebrew verb ⁨עבד⁩ (avad, work or serve) appears in both verses: here it describes the work associated with linen, and there it describes tending the garden. The shared root joins making and tending as forms of service.

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