The Meaning of 1 Chronicles 21:25 Explained

1 Chronicles 21:25

KJV: So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

YLT: And David giveth to Ornan for the place shekels of gold in weight six hundred;

Darby: And David gave to Ornan for the place in shekels of gold the weight of six hundred shekels.

ASV: So David gave to Ornan for the place six hundred shekels of gold by weight.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

So David  gave  to Ornan  for the place  six  hundred  shekels  of gold  by weight. 

What does 1 Chronicles 21:25 Mean?

Study Notes

six hundred shekels of gold
A discrepancy has been imagined in the two accounts, 2 Samuel 24:24 ,; 1 Chronicles 21:25 ; 2 Samuel 24:24 records the price of the threshingfloor (heb. goren); 1 Chronicles 21:25 of the place (Heb. magom, lit. "home," 1 Samuel 2:20 ) same word or area on which afterward the great temple, with its spacious courts was built. 2 Chronicles 3:1 .
David gave fifty shekels of sliver for the "goren"; six hundred shekels of gold for the "magom."

Chapter Summary: 1 Chronicles 21

1  David, tempted by Satan, forces Joab to number the people
5  The number of the people being brought, David repents of it
9  David having three plagues proposed by God, chooses the pestilence
14  After the death of 70,000, David by repentance prevents the destruction of Jerusalem
18  David, by Gad's direction, purchases Ornan's threshing floor;
26  where having built an altar, God gives a sign of his favor by fire
28  David sacrifices there, being restrained from Gibeon by fear of the angel

What do the individual words in 1 Chronicles 21:25 mean?

So gave David Ornan for the place shekels of gold by weight six hundred
וַיִּתֵּ֥ן דָּוִ֛יד לְאָרְנָ֖ן בַּמָּק֑וֹם שִׁקְלֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב מִשְׁקָ֖ל שֵׁ֥שׁ מֵאֽוֹת

וַיִּתֵּ֥ן  So  gave 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Consecutive imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: יָתַן 
Sense: to give, put, set.
דָּוִ֛יד  David 
Parse: Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: דָּוִד  
Sense: youngest son of Jesse and second king of Israel.
לְאָרְנָ֖ן  Ornan 
Parse: Preposition-l, Proper Noun, masculine singular
Root: אָרְנָן  
Sense: a Jebusite who sold, to David, a threshing floor for an altar.
בַּמָּק֑וֹם  for  the  place 
Parse: Preposition-b, Article, Noun, masculine singular
Root: מָקֹום  
Sense: standing place, place.
שִׁקְלֵ֣י  shekels 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: שֶׁקֶל  
Sense: shekel.
זָהָ֔ב  of  gold 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: זָהָב  
Sense: gold.
מִשְׁקָ֖ל  by  weight 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: מִשְׁקָל  
Sense: heaviness, weight.
שֵׁ֥שׁ  six 
Parse: Number, feminine singular
Root: שֵׁשׁ  
Sense: six.
מֵאֽוֹת  hundred 
Parse: Number, feminine plural
Root: מֵאָה 
Sense: hundred.

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