What Does 1 Kings 15:31 Mean in the King James?
Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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 Hebrew phrase behind “chronicles” means “the words of the days”: a life’s deeds become a tellable record.
THE MEANING
A life is not exhausted by its most visible moment; the remaining deeds also belong in its account. What is done can be gathered into words that carry it beyond the moment.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The idea that one headline exhausts a life is undone here: the “rest” of the deeds also has a place in the record.
THE ROOT
דִּבְרֵי הַיָּמִים
divrei hayyamim
GROWS FROM
דבר
d-b-r
To speak; word, matter, or affair.
The English “chronicles” hides a Hebrew phrase that says “the words or matters of the days.” The record gathers what happened into words that can still be told.
ALSO GROWS
davar: Word, matter, or thing.
דָּבָר
This root lets “words” also carry the sense of what took place or was at issue.
dibber: Spoke or spoke about.
דִּבֵּר
The same root links a written record with the act of speaking what happened.
סֵפֶר
sefer
GROWS FROM
ספר
s-p-r
To count, recount, number, or tell.
The word for “book” belongs to the same Hebrew family as counting and recounting. The record is not only a container; its word carries the act of telling the account.
ALSO GROWS
safar: Count or recount.
סָפַר
In Psalm 56:8, a form of this verb is translated “tellest,” connecting a book with the act of recounting.
mispar: Number or count.
מִסְפָּר
This branch shows the root’s sense of gathering particulars into a countable account.
נָדָב
Nadav
GROWS FROM
נדב
n-d-b
To be willing or to offer freely.
Nadab’s name carries the language of willingness and voluntary offering. The verse keeps that name beside the record of all he did, allowing name and deeds to stand together.
ALSO GROWS
nedavah: Freewill offering.
נְדָבָה
This branch carries the root’s sense of giving voluntarily.
nadiv: Willing, generous, or noble person.
נָדִיב
This related word shows how the root’s sense of willingness also describes a person.
THE PATTERN
A life’s details become tellable through records that keep its deeds in view.
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.THE THREAD
Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: are they not in thy book?In Psalm 56:8, “tellest” is a form of סָפַר (safar, “count or recount”), while “book” is סֵפֶר (sefer, “book”); both come from ספר (s-p-r). The same root underlies the book named in Kings, tying the written account to the act of recounting.
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