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Exodus 25:34

in Exodus 25

And on the lampstand there shall be four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and in the candlestick four cups made like almond-blossoms, the knops thereof, and the flowers thereof;

KJV

And in the candlestick shall be four bowls made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers.

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This verse in Exodus 25

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

make a candlestick of pure gold

on Exodus 25:31-36

The candlestick is one piece of beaten gold, shaft and branches and bowls and knops and flowers together, with nothing joined to it. Its bowls are made like unto almonds, and the almond is what buds on Aaron's rod at Numbers 17:8 to settle which tribe holds the priesthood. The same Hebrew word stands behind the almond tree Jeremiah is shown at Jeremiah 1:11 and behind the watching God says he is doing in the verse after it, a play the English cannot carry.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And in the candlestick shall be four bowls,.... That is, in the trunk or body of it; the branches had but three apiece, but this being larger had four: and these were also made like unto almonds, with their knops and their flowers; as the bowls on the branches had with them.

The words behind it

6 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּבַמְּנֹרָ֖הand [will be] on the lampstand

    uvamenorahH4501 →42 times

  • אַרְבָּעָ֣הfour

    ʾarbaahH702 →318 times

  • גְבִעִ֑יםcups

    geviimH1375 →14 times

  • מְשֻׁקָּדִ֔יםshaped like almond blossoms

    meshukadimH8246 →6 times

  • כַּפְתֹּרֶ֖יהָbulbs its

    kaftoreihaH3730 →18 times

  • וּפְרָחֶֽיהָ׃and blossoms its

    uferacheihaH6525 →17 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Giving of the Law on Mount Sinai, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Exodus: the study guide →Read Exodus 25 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).

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