What Does Nehemiah 10:12 Mean in the King James?
Zaccur, Sherebiah, Shebaniah,
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 list makes belonging personal: Zaccur’s name carries the root of remembering.
THE MEANING
This line meets you through the specificity of names: a shared pledge is carried by distinct people, not an anonymous mass. Zaccur bears the sense “remembered,” so remembrance is already present among the names.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that belonging to a shared commitment makes a person disappear is undone by the names preserved here.
THE ROOT
זַכּוּר
Zakkur
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
Remember; call to mind or mention.
Zaccur is formed from זכר, the root behind remembering. The verse’s list therefore holds more than labels: one name carries the same root used for remembering a covenant, making remembrance audible within this roll of names.
ALSO GROWS
zāḵar: Remember, call to mind.
זָכַר
This verb names the act of keeping a person or covenant in mind.
zikkārōn: Remembrance, memorial.
זִכָּרוֹן
This branch shows remembrance taking durable form, as a record or marker that keeps something present.
THE PATTERN
A commitment becomes visible in the distinct names it gathers and keeps in remembrance.
And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.THE THREAD
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.The Hebrew word for “remembered,” זָכַר (zāḵar), shares its root with Zaccur’s name. Nehemiah’s line holds individual names; Exodus uses that same root for remembering a covenant, joining names and commitment in one word-family.
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