What Does Nehemiah 10:7 Mean in the King James?
Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,
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 covenant list carries wholeness in the name Meshullam, whose root also speaks of making good what is owed.
THE MEANING
The verse holds three people within a covenant’s public record. Meshullam bears the root שָׁלַם (shalam), whose word-family joins wholeness with making good; that root sits inside the commitment this line names.
THE ROOT
מְשֻׁלָּם
Meshullam
GROWS FROM
שָׁלַם
shalam
To be whole or complete; to make good or repay.
Meshullam carries the sense of one made whole or repaid. Its root also forms the word for wholeness, so a personal name and a state of wholeness belong to the same Hebrew word-family.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, peace.
שָׁלוֹם
This branch shows wholeness within the root carried by Meshullam’s name.
shillem: To repay or make good.
שִׁלֵּם
This branch shows the root also holding the idea of restoring what is owed.
THE PATTERN
A covenant becomes visible through people who take its words into shared life.
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;For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:THE THREAD
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.Meshullam grows from שָׁלַם (shalam), the root that forms שָׁלוֹם (shalom), wholeness. The psalm names that same wholeness as Jerusalem’s peace, letting the name in Nehemiah’s list echo the root directly.
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