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Exodus 37:19

in Exodus 37

There were three cups shaped like almond blossoms on the first branch, each with buds and petals, three on the next branch, and the same for all six branches that extended from the lampstand.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower, and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower: so for the six branches going out of the candlestick.

KJV

Three bowls made after the fashion of almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds in another branch, a knop and a flower: so throughout the six branches going out of the candlestick.

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This verse in Exodus 37

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

he made the candlestick of pure gold

on Exodus 37:17-22

The candlestick is the one item of furniture with no dimensions given, here or in the command at 25:31 to 25:39, where the only quantity stated is a weight of gold. It is hammered from a single piece and verse 22 says so plainly, all of it one beaten work, so the shaft and the six branches and every bowl and knop and flower are the same lump of metal. Its ornament is almond blossom, which is what Aaron's rod brings forth in Numbers 17:8 when God settles who is to serve him.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

29 And he made the holy anointing oil, and the pure incense of sweet spices, according to the work of the apothecary. The making of the golden altar, on which incense was to be burnt daily, which signified both the prayers of saints and the intercession of Christ, to which are owing the acceptableness and success of those prayers.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Every object was symbolical of important truth--every piece of furniture was made the hieroglyphic of a doctrine or a duty--on the floor and along the sides of that movable edifice was exhibited, by emblematic signs addressed to the eye, the whole remedial scheme of the gospel.

The words behind it

20 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.

  • שְׁלֹשָׁ֣הthree

    sheloshahH7969 →432 times

  • גְ֠בִעִיםcups

    geviimH1375 →14 times

  • מְֽשֻׁקָּדִ֞יםshaped like almond blossoms

    meshukadimH8246 →6 times

  • בַּקָּנֶ֣ה[were] on the branch

    bakanehH7070 →62 times

  • הָאֶחָד֮<the> one

    haechadH259 →971 times

  • כַּפְתֹּ֣רa bulb

    kaftorH3730 →18 times

  • וָפֶרַח֒and a blossom

    vaferachH6525 →17 times

  • וּשְׁלֹשָׁ֣הand three

    usheloshahH7969 →432 times

  • גְבִעִ֗יםcups

    geviimH1375 →14 times

  • מְשֻׁקָּדִ֛יםshaped like almond blossoms

    meshukadimH8246 →6 times

  • בְּקָנֶ֥ה[were] on a branch

    bekanehH7070 →62 times

  • אֶחָ֖דone

    ʾechadH259 →971 times

  • כַּפְתֹּ֣רa bulb

    kaftorH3730 →18 times

  • וָפָ֑רַחand a blossom

    vafarachH6525 →17 times

  • כֵּ֚ןthus

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • לְשֵׁ֣שֶׁתfor [the] six

    lesheshetH8337 →216 times

  • הַקָּנִ֔יםthe branches

    hakanimH7070 →62 times

  • הַיֹּצְאִ֖יםwhich came out

    haiyotzeimH3318 →1067 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַמְּנֹרָֽה׃the lampstand

    hamenorahH4501 →42 times

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

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 37 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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