What Does 1 Chronicles 8:31 Mean in the King James?
And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.
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
This bare list holds three strands of continuity in its names: enclosure, kinship, and remembrance.
THE MEANING
This verse names Gedor (גְּדוֹר, gĕḏôr, “enclosure”), Ahio (אַחְיוֹ, ʾaḥyô, “his brother”), and Zacher (זָכֵר, zāḵēr, “remembered”). In these names, a boundary, a bond, and what is kept in memory remain present together.
THE ROOT
זָכֵר
zāḵēr
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
To remember, call to mind, or keep in remembrance.
Zacher draws on the Hebrew root זכר (z-k-r, “remember”), so the name gathers identity and remembrance into one sound-family. The verb describes bringing something to mind, while its memorial branch gives that memory a form carried forward.
ALSO GROWS
zāḵar: To remember or call to mind.
זָכַר
The verb form lets Zacher’s name open into an active keeping in memory.
zikkārôn: A memorial or remembrance.
זִכָּרוֹן
This branch gives memory a form that can be carried across time.
גְּדוֹר
gĕḏôr
GROWS FROM
גדר
g-d-r
To wall in, fence around, or enclose.
Gedor carries the consonants of the verb for walling something in and the noun for a wall or enclosure. The name brings the idea of a boundary that holds space into the verse’s chain of names.
ALSO GROWS
gāḏar: To wall up, fence in, or enclose.
גָּדַר
The verb makes the name’s sense of enclosure active: a boundary is being formed around something.
gāḏēr: A wall, fence, or enclosure.
גָּדֵר
This noun gives Gedor a concrete image of a boundary that marks and holds a space.
THE PATTERN
A name can carry a person’s nature or a people’s memory beyond the moment of naming.
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.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.And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone.THE THREAD
I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.Zacher echoes זכר (z-k-r, “remember”), the root behind the verse’s repeated “remember.” The name opens into an act that keeps what has happened present in memory.
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