What Does 1 Chronicles 8:22 Mean in the King James?
And Ishpan, and Heber, and Eliel,
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
Heber’s name echoes the Hebrew root for joining, carrying a sense of belonging into this brief family line.
THE MEANING
Ishpan, Heber, and Eliel stand as distinct names in Benjamin’s recorded line. Heber’s name carries the language of joining, placing this genealogy within a picture of identity held in connection.
THE ROOT
חֶבֶר
Ḥeber
GROWS FROM
חבר
To join, bind, or associate.
The Hebrew name echoes חֶבֶר (ḥeber), a company or association, from חָבַר (ḥābar), to join. That root lets Heber’s place in the genealogy carry the sense of joining and belonging.
ALSO GROWS
ḥābar: To join, bind, or associate.
חָבַר
This verb gives the name its root sense of joining.
ḥeber: A company, band, or association.
חֶבֶר
This noun shows joining as a bond among people, fitting Heber’s place within a family line.
THE PATTERN
Names take their place within bonds of belonging that hold people together across generations.
These were heads of the fathers, by their generations, chief men. These dwelt in Jerusalem.Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.THE THREAD
Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together:“Compact together” translates a form of חבר, the same joining root echoed in Heber’s name. This opens the genealogy into a larger image of distinct lives held together as one connected whole.
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