What Does 1 Chronicles 8:19 Mean in the King James?
And Jakim, and Zichri, and Zabdi,
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
Read through their name-roots, this bare list carries three meanings: he establishes, my remembrance, my gift.
THE MEANING
The verse places three names before you, carrying the ideas of establishment, remembrance, and gift. It speaks now as a reminder that your life is more than the moment in front of you: what is set in place, kept in memory, and given can also belong to how your life is named.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A name in a lineage is only an identifier; these three names also carry the meanings of establishing, remembering, and giving.
THE ROOT
יָקִים
Yaqim
GROWS FROM
קום
Q-W-M
To rise or stand; in causative forms, to raise or establish.
Jakim means “he establishes,” from the root whose basic sense is standing or rising. The name carries the act of making something stand within a person’s identity.
ALSO GROWS
qum: To rise, stand.
קוּם
This is the seed beneath Jakim: establishing begins with what stands.
heqim: To raise, set up, establish.
הֵקִים
This causative branch makes the connection explicit: the root’s rising becomes the act of establishing.
זִכְרִי
Zikhri
GROWS FROM
זכר
Z-K-R
To remember, call to mind.
Zichri is commonly understood as “my remembrance” or “memorable.” The name and the act of remembering share one seed, so remembrance is carried as part of identity rather than left outside it.
ALSO GROWS
zakar: To remember, call to mind.
זָכַר
This verb shows the action held inside Zichri’s name.
zikkaron: Memorial, remembrance.
זִכָּרוֹן
A name from this root can become a memorial: what is remembered is given a continuing place.
זַבְדִּי
Zavdi
GROWS FROM
זבד
Z-B-D
To bestow, endow.
Zabdi is commonly glossed as “my gift.” Its root links the gift with the act of bestowing, so this final name carries giving within it.
ALSO GROWS
zavad: To bestow, endow.
זָבַד
This verb names the act behind the gift associated with Zabdi.
zeved: Gift, endowment.
זֶבֶד
This noun shows the result of bestowing: something received as a gift.
THE PATTERN
Names can carry a compact pattern of life: what is established, remembered, and bestowed.
And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.THE THREAD
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.Zichri (זִכְרִי, Zikhri, “my remembrance”) shares the root זכר (zakar, “remember”) with “memorial” and “remembrance” in this verse. Here remembering is forceful and selective: something is written to be carried forward while Amalek’s remembrance is to be erased.
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