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Exodus 36:21

in Exodus 36

Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

KJV

The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.

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This verse in Exodus 36

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood

on Exodus 36:20-26

Under the cloth stands a frame of acacia boards ten cubits high, and every board drops by two tenons into two sockets of silver. Chapter 26 ordered those sockets and this chapter counts them out, forty on the south side and forty on the north. Exodus 38:27 says where the silver came from, a hundred talents of atonement money gathered at half a shekel a head and cast at a talent to a socket, so the frame of the dwelling place stands on ransom money.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

In the building of a house there is a great deal of work about the doors and partitions. In the tabernacle these were answerable to the rest of the fabric; there were curtains for doors, and veils for partitions. There was a veil made for a partition between the holy place, and the most holy,

The words behind it

10 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.

  • עֶ֥שֶׂר[was] ten

    ʾeserH6235 →176 times

  • אַמֹּ֖ותcubits

    ʾamotH520 →247 times

  • אֹ֣רֶךְ[the] length of

    ʾorekhH753 →95 times

  • הַקָּ֑רֶשׁthe frame

    hakareshH7175 →51 times

  • וְאַמָּה֙and [was] a cubit

    veamahH520 →247 times

  • וַחֲצִ֣יand [the] half of

    vachatziH2677 →125 times

  • הָֽאַמָּ֔ה<the> cubit

    haamahH520 →247 times

  • רֹ֖חַב[the] breadth of

    rochavH7341 →101 times

  • הַקֶּ֥רֶשׁthe frame

    hakereshH7175 →51 times

  • הָאֶחָֽד׃<the> one

    haechadH259 →971 times

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

Where this verse is studied

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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 36 →

This page draws on John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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