What Does 1 Chronicles 6:72 Mean in the King James?

And out of the tribe of Issachar; Kedesh with her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs,

1 Chronicles 6:72 · KJV

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

Kedesh carries the name of set-apartness into Issachar’s map, giving the sacred a place within inhabited land.

THE MEANING

Kedesh is named among Issachar’s towns, and the towns are named together with their surrounding lands. The verse holds a settled center and open room together: dwelling is more than the clustered houses.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It loosens the belief that what is set apart must be remote from ordinary life: Kedesh is named within Issachar’s territory, with surrounding land included.

THE ROOT

קֶדֶשׁ

Qedesh

GROWS FROM

קדש

q-d-sh

To set apart, mark as distinct.

Kedesh is more than a point on the map: its name carries the quality of being set apart. The same root names what is distinct or sacred, so the verse places that quality among the inhabited towns of Issachar.

ALSO GROWS

qadosh: Set apart; holy.

קָדוֹשׁ

This adjective carries the same quality of distinction held in Kedesh’s name.

qodesh: Set-apartness; something sacred.

קֹדֶשׁ

It shows that the town’s name belongs to the same root family as the Hebrew word for what is set apart.

THE PATTERN

Set-apart dwelling is placed within communal life and given room to inhabit.

Command the children of Israel, that they give unto the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and ye shall give also unto the Levites suburbs for the cities round about them.

Numbers 35:2 · KJVThe Levites receive both towns to live in and surrounding land, giving their dwelling a center and room around it.

And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.

Joshua 21:3 · KJVThe towns and their surrounding lands are placed within the inheritance shared among the tribes.

Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

1 Corinthians 3:16 · KJVGod’s dwelling is located within a gathered people, extending the pattern from assigned ground to a living community.

THE THREAD

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

Exodus 3:5 · KJV

The word “holy” here comes from the same root, ⁨קדש⁩ (q-d-sh), carried in the name Kedesh. Exodus names the ground itself as set apart; Chronicles carries that same root into the name of a settled town.

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