What Does Nehemiah 10:22 Mean in the King James?
Pelatiah, Hanan, Anaiah,
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
A bare list opens into three name-natures: deliverance, favor, and an answered cry.
THE MEANING
These names speak into your life now as a sequence: deliverance brings you out, favor meets you, and your cry receives an answer. What looks like a bare list holds rescue, graciousness, and response together in the names themselves.
THE ROOT
פְּלַטְיָה
Pelatyah
GROWS FROM
פלט
Escape, or bring someone out of danger; deliver.
Pelatiah joins the deliverance root פלט to Yah, so the name carries Yah’s act of bringing someone through danger. The same root names a deliverer and an escaped survivor: deliverance is more than an outcome here; it is part of the name’s nature.
ALSO GROWS
məfalləṭî: My deliverer.
מְפַלְטִי
This form keeps Pelatiah’s name connected to the one who brings a person out.
pālîṭ: An escaped one; a survivor.
פָּלִיט
The root names both the act of escape and the person who makes it through.
חָנָן
Ḥānān
GROWS FROM
חנן
Show favor; act graciously.
Hanan carries the act of showing favor inside the name. Its root also gives Hebrew words for favor itself and for one who is gracious, keeping the giver and the gift close.
ALSO GROWS
ḥēn: Favor.
חֵן
This branch names the favor Hanan’s root describes as an act.
ḥannūn: Gracious; one who shows favor.
חַנּוּן
The same root describes the nature of the one who gives favor.
עֲנָיָה
Anayah
GROWS FROM
ענה
Answer; respond.
Anaiah carries a response inside the name: its root means to answer. The root also forms a word for an answer, keeping the act of responding and the response itself in one family.
ALSO GROWS
ʿānāh: Answer; respond.
עָנָה
This is the verbal root carried in Anaiah’s name.
maʿăneh: An answer; a response.
מַעֲנֶה
This branch gives the response itself a name from the same root.
THE PATTERN
The LORD’s care moves a person from peril into deliverance, favor, and an answer to the cry.
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:THE THREAD
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.Isaiah’s “gracious” carries חנן (ḥānan: show favor), the root in Hanan, while “answer” carries ענה (ʿānāh: answer), the root in Anaiah. The names in Nehemiah condense the same movement Isaiah states openly: favor meets the cry, and an answer follows.
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