What Does Nehemiah 10:10 Mean in the King James?
And their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,
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 list holds community and particularity together: they are brethren, and Hanan’s name carries the language of favor.
THE MEANING
You belong among others without becoming anonymous: the verse calls them brethren and still names each person. Hanan carries חנן, the Hebrew root for showing favor, so a name in the list also holds a living word for graciousness.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Belonging means your distinct identity disappears into the group.
THE ROOT
חָנָן
ḥānan
GROWS FROM
חנן
ḥ-n-n
To show favor; to be gracious.
Hanan grows from the same root as the Hebrew word for favor. The name keeps that meaning present inside a list of people gathered as brethren.
ALSO GROWS
ḥēn: Favor; acceptance.
חֵן
This noun makes the root’s favor explicit, showing the meaning carried in Hanan’s name.
ḥannûn: Gracious; showing favor.
חַנּוּן
This related form describes the quality the name Hanan evokes: a nature marked by favor.
THE PATTERN
A community can gather many people while preserving each person’s distinct place.
He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;THE THREAD
And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.Hanan comes from חנן, the same Hebrew root translated “graciously” here. The name in Nehemiah’s list carries that language of favor into the gathering of brethren.
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