What Does 1 Chronicles 9:37 Mean in the King James?

And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zechariah, and Mikloth.

1 Chronicles 9:37 · KJV

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

In this list of names, Zechariah carries a quiet claim: YHWH remembers.

THE MEANING

The verse keeps Gedor, Ahio, Zechariah, and Mikloth distinct by naming them. Zechariah means “YHWH remembers,” so remembrance is carried within this record of names.

THE ROOT

זְכַרְיָה

Zekharyah

GROWS FROM

ז-כ-ר

z-k-r

Remember; call to mind. The name means “YHWH remembers.”

The name carries the root ⁨זכר⁩ (z-k-r, remember), which also appears in words for remembering and memorial. By preserving Zechariah’s name, the verse itself becomes a small act of remembrance.

ALSO GROWS

zāḵar: To remember or call to mind.

זָכַר

The root inside Zechariah’s name is also the word for remembering.

zikkārōn: A remembrance or memorial.

זִכָּרוֹן

This branch shows how remembering can be made present through a spoken or written record, as this list does with Zechariah’s name.

THE PATTERN

A name kept in remembrance preserves a person’s place across time.

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.

Exodus 3:15 · KJVThe LORD’s name is joined to a memorial that endures through generations.

Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Luke 10:20 · KJVA name held in remembrance gives each person a place in the record.

He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Revelation 3:5 · KJVThe promise preserves a person’s name rather than letting it disappear from the book of life.

THE THREAD

He hath remembered his covenant for ever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations.

Psalm 105:8 · KJV

The word “remembered” comes from ⁨זכר⁩ (z-k-r), the same root carried in Zechariah’s name. Here that remembrance reaches across generations through the covenant, opening the short name list into a wider record of what is remembered.

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