What Does 1 Chronicles 7:9 Mean in the King James?
And the number of them, after their genealogy by their generations, heads of the house of their fathers, mighty men of valour, was twenty thousand and two hundred.
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 count is also a telling: Hebrew places the number inside generations that give the record a human line.
THE MEANING
Your place in a people appears here within two measures at once: a number, and the generations and household that carry it. Strength is named among those counted, so lineage and capacity remain visible beside scale.
THE ROOT
מִסְפָּר
mispar
GROWS FROM
ס־פ־ר
to count or recount
Mispar belongs to the same root family as saphar, to count or recount, and sefer, a book or written record. The number sits within language that can both count and record, joining the tally to the generations it preserves.
ALSO GROWS
saphar: to count or recount
סָפַר
The tally is an act of counting within a larger account of the people.
sefer: book or written record
סֵפֶר
This shared root links the number to the idea of a record that holds a people’s line.
תּוֹלְדוֹת
toledot
GROWS FROM
י־ל־ד
to bear or beget
Toledot carries the sense of births, descendants, and the generations they form. It makes the tally a count within a line of lives, rather than a sequence detached from the households that carry it.
ALSO GROWS
yalad: to bear or beget
יָלַד
The generations in the verse are rooted in the act of bringing forth descendants.
yeled: child
יֶלֶד
A generation is made of children carried forward through a family line.
גִּבּוֹרֵי
gibbore
GROWS FROM
ג־ב־ר
to be strong or prevail
“mighty men” in this verse is gibbore. Gibbore comes from a root of strength and prevailing. The verse places that strength among the counted households, alongside generations and family lines.
ALSO GROWS
gibbor: mighty person or warrior
גִּבּוֹר
This is the singular form behind the verse’s description of the men counted.
gevurah: might or strength
גְּבוּרָה
This related word makes the root’s emphasis on strength explicit.
THE PATTERN
The record holds a people’s count inside the generations and households that carry it.
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.THE THREAD
This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;Genesis 5:1 pairs sefer (סֵפֶר, sefer, book or record) with toledot (תּוֹלְדוֹת, toledot, generations), the same word used here. Sefer shares the root ס־פ־ר with mispar (מִסְפָּר, mispar, number), joining the count to a recorded line of generations.
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