What Does 1 Chronicles 4:22 Mean in the King James?
And Jokim, and the men of Chozeba, and Joash, and Saraph, who had the dominion in Moab, and Jashubi-lehem. And these are ancient things.
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 word rendered “dominion” comes from בעל (baʿal), whose root gathers mastery, ownership, and husbandhood.
THE MEANING
You encounter a line where names, rule, and age remain bound together; the text itself calls these matters ancient. The Hebrew behind “had dominion” carries mastery and ownership, making rule a form of holding something as one’s own. Even this terse list preserves the nature of that holding.
THE ROOT
בָּעֲלוּ
baʿalu
GROWS FROM
בעל
b-ʿ-l
To own, rule, or be master; the related noun also means husband.
The verb belongs to the root בעל, whose noun can name a master, owner, or husband. “Dominion” therefore carries possession and relationship together: power is described as holding over Moab.
ALSO GROWS
baʿal: Master, owner, husband
בַּעַל
These meanings show how the verse’s word for rule shares a root with both ownership and marriage.
beʿalim: Owners, masters
בְּעָלִים
The plural makes the root’s sense of possession explicit, deepening the force of “had dominion.”
עַתִּיקִים
ʿattiqim
GROWS FROM
עתק
ʿ-t-q
To move onward, pass away, or advance; the derived adjective means old or ancient.
The word translated “ancient” belongs to a root associated with movement onward or passing away. The verse presents these names as what has travelled through time into the record you read now.
ALSO GROWS
ʿataq: To move onward, pass away, advance
עָתַק
The verb’s sense of movement gives the word for “ancient” a sense of what has travelled far through time.
ʿattiq: Ancient, old
עַתִּיק
This is the singular form behind the verse’s closing description of these matters as ancient.
THE PATTERN
What is named and remembered across generations remains present to be read and received.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.THE THREAD
These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work.The next verse places these names among potters and people dwelling among plants and hedges, working with the king. The ancient record holds a world of craft and service alongside the names.
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