What Does 1 Kings 4:17 Mean in the King James?
Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:
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 roster makes responsibility inseparable from a person and a place, while the names beneath the English carry judgment, flourishing, and reward.
THE MEANING
Your life is not anonymous or abstract: it is lived through particular relationships and places. This line names a son through his father and locates him in Issachar; beneath those names are echoes of judgment, flowering, and reward. Identity, kinship, and place remain joined.
THE ROOT
יְהוֹשָׁפָט
Yehoshaphat
GROWS FROM
שפט
shāphaṭ
Judge, decide, govern.
“Jehoshaphat” in this verse is Yehoshaphat. The name is commonly understood as “YHWH judges,” carrying the root שפט (shāphaṭ, judge). English preserves the person’s name, while Hebrew lets judgment and discernment sound inside the identity named.
ALSO GROWS
shāphaṭ: To judge, decide, govern.
שָׁפַט
The root names judgment as an active work, not merely an abstract idea.
shōphēṭ: Judge.
שֹׁפֵט
This branch names the person who carries out that work.
mishpāṭ: Judgment, justice, an ordered decision.
מִשְׁפָּט
The same root extends from judging to the order that judgment establishes.
יִשָּׂשכָר
Yissachar
GROWS FROM
שכר
ś-k-r
Hire, wages, reward.
Genesis 30:18 explicitly links Issachar’s name with שָׂכָר (sākār, hire or reward). English leaves Issachar as a place-name; the Hebrew lets it echo with the language of reward beneath the map label.
ALSO GROWS
sākār: Hire, wages, reward.
שָׂכָר
This is the word Genesis 30:18 places beside Issachar’s name, making the root connection visible.
sākar: To hire or pay wages.
שָׂכַר
The verb shows the same seed at work as an exchange or payment.
śākhîr: A hired person or worker.
שָׂכִיר
This branch carries the root into the person whose work is compensated.
פָּרוּחַ
Paruach
GROWS FROM
פרח
pāraḥ
Sprout, blossom, flourish.
Paruah’s name is connected with the seed of blooming, so the father’s name carries more than a lineage label. Alongside Jehoshaphat and Issachar, the roster holds judgment, flowering, and reward inside its names.
ALSO GROWS
pāraḥ: To sprout or blossom.
פָּרַח
The verb reveals the movement at the root of Paruah’s name.
peraḥ: Blossom, flower.
פֶּרַח
This branch gives the root a visible form of emerging life.
pōrēaḥ: Flowering, flourishing.
פּוֹרֵחַ
This branch carries the root’s image of growth into a state of flourishing.
THE PATTERN
Responsibility is made concrete through named people attached to particular communities and places.
And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea:And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.THE THREAD
And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.The roster names Issachar as a territory; Genesis 30:18 places the name beside שָׂכָר (sākār, hire or reward). That connection lets the place-name carry its own language of reward beneath the geographic label.
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