What Does 2 Samuel 23:38 Mean in the King James?
Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,
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 shared name marks their belonging, but the record keeps Ira and Gareb distinct.
THE MEANING
Your belonging to a people does not erase your particular name. Ira and Gareb carry the same Ithrite identity, and each remains named in the record.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that belonging makes you anonymous dissolves here: the shared identity is repeated, but neither man disappears into it.
THE ROOT
יִתְרִי
yithri
GROWS FROM
יתר
y-t-r
The gentilic is often traced to Jether; the root can mean to remain or be left over, and also to exceed or be in excess.
“Ithrite” in this verse is yithri. The verse repeats the same family designation beside two different personal names: shared origin and distinct identity stand together. The root may carry an echo of what remains or exceeds, though the line’s clearest signal is the repeated belonging.
ALSO GROWS
yether: Remainder, surplus
יֶתֶר
It shares the root’s sense of what remains, echoing how both men are preserved by name in the line.
yithron: Advantage, profit
יִתְרוֹן
This word carries the root’s sense of what exceeds or remains in addition, another branch of the same Hebrew root.
THE PATTERN
A name keeps the particular visible within a larger company.
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.THE THREAD
Ira the Ithrite, Gareb the Ithrite,Chronicles preserves the same pair with the same shared clan marker. Read together, the lines make the repeated Ithrite identity visible while keeping Ira and Gareb individually named.
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