What Does Nehemiah 10:20 Mean?
Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,THE KEY
The roster includes a name from the root of wholeness: the covenant’s completion is carried by particular people.
THE MEANING
The verse presents commitment through particular people, naming them one by one. In the shared covenant of this chapter, participation has faces and names, not just a general promise. Meshullam’s name carries the root’s sense of wholeness and completion into the roll call.
THE ROOT
מְשֻׁלָּם
Meshullam
GROWS FROM
שלם
sh-l-m
To be complete or whole; to repay or make restitution.
The name מְשֻׁלָּם (Meshullam, “recompensed”) comes from שָׁלַם (shalam, “to be complete or whole; to repay”). Its root also forms שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “wholeness, peace”), joining the name of one person in this list to a word-family of completion.
ALSO GROWS
shalom: Wholeness, completeness; also peace.
שָׁלוֹם
This branch carries the root’s sense of wholeness into the life shared between people.
shalem: Whole, complete.
שָׁלֵם
It makes the root’s idea of completion audible within Meshullam’s name.
shillem: He repaid or made restitution.
שִׁלֵּם
This branch shows how the same root can express making good or completing what is owed, a sense carried by the name Meshullam.
THE PATTERN
A shared commitment becomes visible through the people who enter and sustain it.
So Joshua cut a covenant with the people that day, and set for them a statute and a judgment in Shechem.And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers, with all their heart and with all their living soul.And they held fast in the teaching of the sent ones, and in sharing in common, and in the breaking of bread, and in prayers.THE THREAD
Ask for the wholeness of Jerusalem; those who love you are at ease.The name מְשֻׁלָּם (Meshullam, “recompensed”) comes from שָׁלַם (shalam, “to be complete or whole; repay”), the same root family as שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “wholeness, peace”). Psalm 122:6 gives that shared root a communal horizon: the wholeness held in one name is voiced as a hope for a city.
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