What Does Nehemiah 7:40 Mean?
The children of Immer, one thousand and fifty-two.
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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
The children of Immer, a thousand fifty and two.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.
These are the births of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and sons were born to them after the flood.Now these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Egypt; every man and his household came with Jacob.The book of the origin of Jesus, the anointed one, son of David, son of Abraham.THE THREAD
The words of the LORD are clean words, as silver refined in a furnace of the ground, filtered seven times.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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