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Exodus 38:10

in Exodus 38

with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

KJV

Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

This verse in Exodus 38

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen

on Exodus 38:9-13

The court is walled with cloth rather than stone, a hundred cubits by fifty, and every hanging around it is plain white linen. Colour is held back for the gate alone in verse 18. Three sides get their pillars and sockets counted and the east side gets one short line, because the east is where the way in is and the account turns from wall to entrance.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Commentary on Chapter XXXVIII 1. The altar of burnt-offering - On this all their sacrifices were offered. Christ was himself the altar to his own sacrifice of atonement, and so he is to all our sacrifices of acknowledgment.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

hooks--The hooks of the pillars in the court were for hanging up the carcasses of the sacrificial beasts--those on the pillars at the entry of the tabernacle were for hanging the sacerdotal robes and other things used in the service.

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The words behind it

9 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.

  • עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֣םpillars their

    ʾamudeihemH5982111 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֔יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242315 times

  • וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥םand bases their

    veadneihemH13457 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֖יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242315 times

  • נְחֹ֑שֶׁת[were] bronze

    nechoshetH5178140 times

  • וָוֵ֧י[the] hooks of

    vaveiH205313 times

  • הָעַמֻּדִ֛יםthe pillars

    haamudimH5982111 times

  • וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖םand bands their

    vachashukeihemH28388 times

  • כָּֽסֶף׃[were] silver

    kasefH3701403 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.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.