What Does 1 Chronicles 9:12 Mean in the King James?

And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

1 Chronicles 9:12 · KJV

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THE KEY

Jeroham’s name carries the root of compassion through the chain that names Adaiah.

THE MEANING

Adaiah is named within a chain of ancestors, not as an isolated identity. Jeroham’s name means “may he be shown compassion,” from ⁨רָחַם⁩ (rāḥam, to have compassion), a root also found in the word for womb; that meaning travels with the names preserved here.

THE ROOT

יְרֹחָם

Yeroḥam

GROWS FROM

רחם

r-ḥ-m

Have compassion; show mercy.

Jeroham means “may he be shown compassion,” from the root ⁨רחם⁩ (r-ḥ-m). The same root gives Hebrew ⁨רֶחֶם⁩ (reḥem, womb), so the name carries compassion alongside an image of life held and formed.

ALSO GROWS

raḥamim: Compassion, mercies.

רַחֲמִים

This is the familiar plural form from the same root, making the compassion in Jeroham’s name audible as a continuing quality.

reḥem: Womb.

רֶחֶם

The shared root links compassion with the womb, adding an image of life held and cared for to a name in this line of descent.

THE PATTERN

Scripture places a person within a line by preserving the names and relations that carry that line forward.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;

Genesis 5:1 · KJVThe generations are recorded as a line, so a person’s place is carried by the names and relations around him.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Matthew 1:1 · KJVThe opening locates Jesus within a named chain of ancestors.

Which was the son of Enos, which was the son of Seth, which was the son of Adam, which was the son of God.

Luke 3:38 · KJVThe repeated relations extend a person’s place through a line of names.

THE THREAD

And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Exodus 34:6 · KJV

Jeroham’s name grows from ⁨רחם⁩ (r-ḥ-m), the root of compassion; “merciful” in this verse is ⁨רַחוּם⁩ (raḥum), from the same root. The genealogy carries that root inside a personal name, while Exodus names compassion as part of the LORD’s nature.

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