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Exodus 25:33

in Exodus 25

There are to be 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 extend from the lampstand.

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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 like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.

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This verse in Exodus 25

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Then you are to make a lampstand of pure, hammered gold

on Exodus 25:31-36

The lampstand is “made of one piece,” base, shaft, cups, buds and petals, with nothing joined on. Its cups are “shaped like almond blossoms,” and the almond buds on Aaron's staff at Numbers 17:8 to settle the priesthood.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch,....

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[will be] 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

  • בַּקָּנֶ֥ה[will be] on the branch

    bakanehH7070 →62 times

  • הָאֶחָ֖ד<the> one

    haechadH259 →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 come 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.

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 37:19–20There 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.2 worksJeremiah 1:11–12And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.2 worksNumbers 17:4–8Place the staffs in the Tent of Meeting in front of the Testimony, where I meet with you.2 worksZechariah 4:3There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.”2 worksExodus 37:20And on the lampstand were four cups shaped like almond blossoms with buds and petals.2 works

The walk

5 stops

Each 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

    Zechariah 4:3

    There are also two olive trees beside it, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left.”

    it leads to

    • Revelation 11:4

      These witnesses are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.

    • Romans 11:17

      Now if some branches have been broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others to share in the nourishment of the olive root,

    • Zechariah 4:14

      So he said, “These are the two anointed ones who are standing beside the Lord of all the earth.”

    • Zechariah 4:11–12

      Then I asked the angel, “What are the two olive trees on the right and left of the lampstand?”

    • Romans 11:24

      For if you were cut from a wild olive tree, and contrary to nature were grafted into one that is cultivated, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their…

Where this verse is studied

About Exodus

The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. Public domain.
The Israelites Leaving Egypt, David Roberts, 1829. 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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