What Does 1 Chronicles 8:14 Mean in the King James?

And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,

1 Chronicles 8:14 · 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

Jeremoth carries the root ⁨רום⁩ (rum), “to rise high,” inside this otherwise spare list of names.

THE MEANING

This line reaches you through names whose stories are left untold. Jeremoth carries the language of rising high within the list; the verse gives no circumstances for that height, only the name itself.

THE ROOT

יְרֵמוֹת

Yeremoth

GROWS FROM

רום

rum

To rise, be high, or be exalted.

Jeremoth is linked to the root ⁨רום⁩, which holds height and rising together. English presents only a name, while the Hebrew name carries the language of elevation within it.

ALSO GROWS

marom: Height; a high place.

מָרוֹם

This branch makes explicit the height carried in Jeremoth’s root.

meromem: Raises high; exalts.

מְרוֹמֵם

This verbal form shows the root as an act of lifting or raising, a meaning echoed in the connected verse.

THE PATTERN

Scripture lets a name carry the shape or meaning of a life, not only identify it.

Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many nations have I made thee.

Genesis 17:5 · KJVThe changed name carries the promise that follows it: Abraham is named in relation to becoming the father of many nations.

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Exodus 2:10 · KJVMoses’s name preserves the act of drawing him out of the water in the story of his life.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe name Jesus is tied to his work of delivering his people.

THE THREAD

The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up.

1 Samuel 2:7 · KJV

Jeremoth carries ⁨רום⁩ (rum), “to rise high”; in this verse, “lifteth up” comes from that same root. The name in the list shares its seed with the image of one being raised.

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