Exodus 27:10
in Exodus 27with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and silver hooks and bands on the posts.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
and the pillars thereof shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
KJV
And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
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This verse in Exodus 27
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
make the court of the tabernacle
on Exodus 27:9-13
The word court occurs here for the first time in Scripture, and what it names is a wall of plain white linen a hundred cubits long by fifty broad. Its pillars stand in sockets of brass and are hooked and filleted with silver, so the perimeter repeats the tent's own order of metals with the plainest at the ground. Three sides get their hangings and their pillars counted out, and the east side is given only its width, because the gate goes there and verses 14 to 16 divide it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
the court of the tabernacle--The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle.
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How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
[AND THEIR FILLETS.] The meaning of chashukehem (their fillets) is their attachments, the hooks being attached to the pillars.
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 5 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעַמֻּדָ֣יו | veamudav | and pillars its | H5982 → | 111 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֔ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥ם | veadneihem | and bases their | H134 → | 57 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֖ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| נְחֹ֑שֶׁת | nechoshet | [will be] bronze | H5178 → | 140 times |
| וָוֵ֧י | vavei | [the] hooks of | H2053 → | 13 times |
| הָעַמֻּדִ֛ים | haamudim | the pillars | H5982 → | 111 times |
| וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖ם | vachashukeihem | and bands their | H2838 → | 8 times |
| כָּֽסֶף׃ | kasef | [will be] silver | H3701 → | 403 times |
וְעַמֻּדָ֣יוand pillars its
veamudavH5982 →111 times
עֶשְׂרִ֔יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥םand bases their
veadneihemH134 →57 times
עֶשְׂרִ֖יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
נְחֹ֑שֶׁת[will be] bronze
nechoshetH5178 →140 times
וָוֵ֧י[the] hooks of
vaveiH2053 →13 times
הָעַמֻּדִ֛יםthe pillars
haamudimH5982 →111 times
וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖םand bands their
vachashukeihemH2838 →8 times
כָּֽסֶף׃[will be] silver
kasefH3701 →403 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
3 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Jeremiah 52:21Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.
it leads to
- 2 Kings 25:17
Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall. The bronze capital atop one pillar was three cubits high, with a network of bronze pomegranates all around. The second pillar, with its network, was similar.
- 1 Kings 7:15–21
He cast two pillars of bronze, each eighteen cubits high and twelve cubits in circumference.
- 2 Chronicles 3:15–17
In front of the temple he made two pillars, which together were thirty-five cubits high, each with a capital on top measuring five cubits.
- 2 Kings 25:17
Where this verse is studied
About Exodus

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.
