What Does 1 Chronicles 5:17 Mean in the King James?
All these were reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam king of Israel.
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 Hebrew verb counts these people by tracing their place in a family line, preserving relationship as well as number.
THE MEANING
Here, being counted means being located within a lineage that reaches beyond the present generation. The verse keeps that record alongside Judah and Israel, so identity remains traceable across their separate centers of rule. Your place in a story can be carried through generations and remembered in the lives that came before you.
THE ROOT
הִתְיַחְשׂוּ
hityachsu
GROWS FROM
יחשׂ
y-ḥ-s
To enroll or trace a person in a genealogy.
“reckoned by genealogies” in this verse is hityachsu. English “reckoned” can sound like a tally, but this Hebrew form speaks of genealogical enrollment: these people are counted by being placed in a line of descent. The noun yachas (יַחַשׂ, genealogy) shares that seed, so the word holds number and relationship together.
ALSO GROWS
yachas: Genealogy; lineage.
יַחַשׂ
The noun names the family line that the verse’s verb uses to locate each person; the record is relational as well as numerical.
hamityachsim: Those enrolled by genealogy.
הַמִּתְיַחְשִׂים
This form names the people whose genealogical standing is checked, showing that the root describes both the act of registration and those positioned within the record.
THE PATTERN
Scripture carries belonging through named generations, preserving a person’s place as part of a lineage.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood.The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
So all Israel were reckoned by genealogies; and, behold, they were written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah, who were carried away to Babylon for their transgression.The same Hebrew root, יחשׂ (y-ḥ-s, to register by genealogy), appears in “reckoned by genealogies.” Here the genealogical count is paired with a written register, showing a lineage that remains legible even when people are displaced.
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