1 Chronicles 8:19

Study note

Setting — The Chronicler records a genealogical list, documenting clan members to preserve Israel’s tribal structure without addressing a specific audience or narrative event.

The words — וְ/יָקִ֥ם (ve./ya.Kim) attaches the conjunction "and" to the name Jakim, a syntactic pattern repeated for Zichri and Zabdi that marks each entry as a sequential addition to the record.

The thread — 1 Chronicles 8:19 functions as a genealogical link within a continuous clan list, extending the ancestral documentation that frames the surrounding verses in the same chapter.

Why it lands — The text requires the reader to recognize the structural necessity of each name in preserving a recorded lineage, treating the entries as factual components of a documented family tree rather than isolated accounts.

Drafted by a language model from the text, its original words and its cross-references, then checked against them. It can still be wrong: open the verse in the app to report it.