What Does 1 Chronicles 9:5 Mean in the King James?

And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.

1 Chronicles 9:5 · 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

Asaiah’s name means “Yah has made,” placing divine making at the center of this household’s line.

THE MEANING

This verse gathers a people, a named man, and his sons into one living line. Asaiah’s name carries “Yah has made” inside his identity. The verse speaks of your life as something made and belonging, with a story that extends beyond itself.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The belief that you are entirely self-made gives way to a name that says “Yah has made.”

THE ROOT

עֲשָׂיָה

ʿAsāyāh

GROWS FROM

עשה

ʿayin

⁨עָשָׂה⁩ (ʿāśāh) means “to do, to make.” Asaiah joins this root with Yah, giving the name the sense “Yah has made.”

Asaiah carries a sentence inside his name: “Yah has made.” The root holds the act of making and the work that comes from it in one family, framing identity as received making.

ALSO GROWS

ʿāśāh: To do, to make

עָשָׂה

This is the verb at the center of Asaiah’s name, joining the person’s identity to the act of making.

maʿăśeh: Work, deed

מַעֲשֶׂה

This branch names what doing produces, echoing the verse’s movement from Asaiah’s name to his sons.

THE PATTERN

A name can carry the nature or work associated with the person who bears it.

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.

Genesis 17:5 · KJVAbraham’s name is linked directly to the nature of the life and people named in the verse.

And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Because I drew him out of the water.

Exodus 2:10 · KJVMoses’s name is tied to being drawn out, carrying that nature within the name.

And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

Matthew 1:21 · KJVThe verse connects Jesus’s name with his work of delivering his people.

THE THREAD

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 1:31 · KJV

The Hebrew verb translated “made” is ⁨עָשָׂה⁩ (ʿāśāh), the root carried in Asaiah’s name, which means “Yah has made.” The name echoes this verse’s making language, letting the family line read within the same act that calls what is made very good.

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