What Does 1 Chronicles 8:27 Mean in the King James?
And Jaresiah, and Eliah, and Zichri, the sons of Jeroham.
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 genealogy is already a memorial: Zichri’s name grows from “remember,” and speaking his name keeps that remembrance alive.
THE MEANING
This line holds remembrance and compassion inside its names: Zichri carries the language of remembering, while Jeroham carries the language of compassion. The names keep each person legible within a family line that remains present whenever it is read.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the assumption that a name is only a label or a genealogy an empty list: here, the names carry meaning that remains present in speech.
THE ROOT
זִכְרִי
Zikri
GROWS FROM
ז־כ־ר
Z-K-R
Remember; call to mind.
Zichri carries the same root as the Hebrew words for remembering and memorial. In this verse, the genealogy does more than list a name: it preserves that name in the act of being read.
ALSO GROWS
zakar: Remember; call to mind.
זָכַר
This verb is the seed beneath Zichri’s name, giving the name the force of remembrance rather than a bare label.
zeker: Remembrance; memorial.
זֵכֶר
The same root names a memorial, so the spoken name in this family line becomes an act of keeping someone present.
יְרֹחָם
Yeroham
GROWS FROM
ר־ח־ם
R-Ḥ-M
Show compassion; have tender mercy.
Jeroham’s name carries the root of compassion into the family line. Hebrew also uses this root for compassionate tenderness, so the name holds more than ancestry: it bears the language of care.
ALSO GROWS
riḥem: Show compassion; have mercy.
רִחֵם
This verb shares Jeroham’s root and brings compassion into the meaning carried by the name.
raḥum: Compassionate; merciful.
רַחוּם
This adjective makes the root a quality of a person, echoing how a name can carry a nature within a genealogy.
THE PATTERN
A name kept in remembrance preserves a person’s identity across generations.
And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;THE THREAD
Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.“Remembrance” here comes from ז־כ־ר, the same root carried by Zichri’s name. The genealogy enacts that remembrance by speaking the names and keeping them present across generations.
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