What Does Nehemiah 7:40 Mean in the King James?

The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.

Nehemiah 7:40 · KJV

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 number does not erase the name: 1,052 people are held inside the remembered name Immer.

THE MEANING

This verse makes a family visible as both a name and a count: Immer’s descendants number 1,052. The people are not an indistinct total; their belonging remains attached to a name.

THE ROOT

אִמֵּר

ʾImmēr

GROWS FROM

אמר

ʾ-m-r

Say, speak; Immer is commonly linked with this root.

The family name carries the sound of speech: Immer is commonly associated with ⁨אמר⁩ (amar, to say). The count is attached to a name that can be spoken and remembered, so the line holds both number and identity.

ALSO GROWS

amar: To say or speak.

אָמַר

This verb is the root associated with the name Immer, bringing speech into a verse that otherwise reads like a bare count.

imrah: A saying, utterance, or word.

אִמְרָה

This related noun shows the root branching from the act of speaking into what is spoken and retained.

THE PATTERN

Scripture makes a people visible by arranging names into generations.

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

Genesis 10:1 · KJVThe verse sets lineage in view through named generations.

Now these are the names of the children of Israel, which came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.

Exodus 1:1 · KJVThe list begins by holding a people together through names and households.

The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.

Matthew 1:1 · KJVA lineage is made visible through the names that connect one generation to another.

THE THREAD

The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.

Psalm 12:6 · KJV

Immer is commonly linked with ⁨אמר⁩ (amar, to say); Psalm 12:6 uses the related word ⁨אִמְרָה⁩ (imrah, utterance or word). The name in this counted family line echoes the same root that names words refined and retained in the psalm.

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