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Exodus 27:11

in Exodus 27

Likewise there are to be curtains on the north side, a hundred cubits long, 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

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings a hundred cubits long, and the pillars thereof twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

KJV

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

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This verse in Exodus 27

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle

on Exodus 27:9-13

The courtyard is a wall of plain linen a hundred cubits by fifty. Its posts stand on “bronze bases” with “silver hooks and bands,” so the perimeter repeats the tent's order of metals, the plainest at the ground.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of one hundred cubits long,.... The north and south sides of this court being equal, the same length of hangings were for the one as the other: and his twenty pillars, and their twenty sockets of brass; there went on this side the same number of pillars and sockets, and of the same metal: the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; just as they were on the south side.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

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

On the verses either side of this one

[AND THEIR FILLETS.] The meaning of chashukehem (their fillets) is their attachments, the hooks being attached to the pillars.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 27:10:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
AND FOR THE BREADTH…FIFTY CUBITS. The width of the courtyard was thus half of its length. 40 The courtyard was 100 cubits long.
Ibn Ezra: Spain, 1089–1167 · Ibn Ezra on Exodus 27:12:1, via Sefaria, Ibn Ezra's commentary on the Pentateuch, tran. and annot. by H. Norman Strickman and Arthur M. Silver. Menorah Pub., 1988-2004

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

16 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.

  • וְכֵ֨ןand thus

    vekhenH3651 →771 times

  • לִפְאַ֤תfor [the] side of

    lifatH6285 →86 times

  • צָפוֹן֙[the] north

    tzafonH6828 →153 times

  • בָּאֹ֔רֶךְin the length

    baorekhH753 →95 times

  • קְלָעִ֖יםcurtains

    kelaimH7050 →22 times

  • מֵ֣אָה[will be] one hundred

    meahH3967 →581 times

  • אֹ֑רֶךְlength

    ʾorekhH753 →95 times

  • וְעַמּוּדָ֣יוand pillars its

    veamduH5982 →111 times

  • עֶשְׂרִ֗יםtwenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֤םand bases their

    veadneihemH134 →57 times

  • עֶשְׂרִים֙twenty

    ʾesrimH6242 →315 times

  • נְחֹ֔שֶׁת[will be] bronze

    nechoshetH5178 →140 times

  • וָוֵ֧י[the] hooks of

    vaveiH2053 →13 times

  • הָֽעַמֻּדִ֛יםthe 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.

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 27 →

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.

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