What Does Nehemiah 10:25 Mean in the King James?
Rehum, Hashabnah, Maaseiah,
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
Three names make a path from compassion through considered thought into deed.
THE MEANING
You meet a line of names whose roots hold compassion, considered intention, and work. Together they let the roster speak of qualities carried into action.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A person’s name is only a label with no nature inside it.
THE ROOT
רְחוּם
Rehum
GROWS FROM
רחם
racham
To show compassion; to be tender.
Rehum carries the compassion-root that also forms the word for womb. The root lets compassion read as sheltering, life-bearing tenderness, not merely a distant sentiment.
ALSO GROWS
racham: To show compassion.
רָחַם
The verb makes compassion an active quality carried in Rehum’s name.
rachamim: Compassion, mercies.
רַחֲמִים
The plural form shows the root extending into acts or expressions of compassion.
rechem: Womb.
רֶחֶם
The shared root connects compassion with the sheltering place where life is held.
חֲשַׁבְנָה
Ḥashabnah
GROWS FROM
חשב
chashav
To think, reckon, or devise.
Hashabnah carries the root of thinking and reckoning. The root links inward thought with the act of forming a plan or accounting for what matters.
ALSO GROWS
chashav: To think, reckon, devise.
חָשַׁב
The verb makes thought an act of considering and shaping.
machashavah: Thought, plan.
מַחֲשָׁבָה
This branch shows the root taking shape as an intention or design.
cheshbon: Account, reckoning.
חֶשְׁבּוֹן
The same root connects thought with weighing or accounting for something.
מַעֲשֵׂיָה
Ma'aseiah
GROWS FROM
עשה
asah
To do or make.
Maaseiah carries the root that forms the word for a deed or work: the name holds action inside it. Its ending names Yah, placing that work in relation to the divine.
ALSO GROWS
asah: To do, make.
עָשָׂה
The verb is the seed of the work named in Maaseiah.
ma'aseh: Deed, work.
מַעֲשֶׂה
This noun shows the root as action brought into form.
asiyah: Doing, action.
עֲשִׂיָּה
The branch keeps the emphasis on work as an active process.
THE PATTERN
Names carry a nature that scripture also speaks as active qualities: compassion, considered thought, and work.
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.THE THREAD
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,The Hebrew רָחוּם (rachum, compassionate), rendered “merciful,” shares the רחם (racham, compassion) root with Rehum. The list’s first name carries the same compassion this verse names in the LORD.
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