Exodus 27:9
in Exodus 27You are also to make a courtyard for the tabernacle. On the south side of the courtyard make curtains of finely spun linen, a hundred cubits long on one side,
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ASV
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side:
KJV
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
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This verse in Exodus 27
Commentary
5 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
The court of the tabernacle - (Compare Exo 38:9-20) Exo 27:9 The south side southward - The south side on the right. See Exo 26:18. Exo 27:10 Sockets - Bases. See Exo 26:19. Fillets - Rather, Connecting rods; curtain-rods of silver connecting the heads of the pillars. The hangings were attached to the pillars by the silver hooks; but the length of the space between the pillars would render it most probable that they were also in some way fastened to these rods. Exo 27:13 The east side eastward - On the front side eastward.
This site's exposition
make the court of the tabernacle
on Exodus 27:9-13
The word court occurs here for the first time in Scripture, and what it names is a wall of plain white linen a hundred cubits long by fifty broad. Its pillars stand in sockets of brass and are hooked and filleted with silver, so the perimeter repeats the tent's own order of metals with the plainest at the ground. Three sides get their hangings and their pillars counted out, and the east side is given only its width, because the gate goes there and verses 14 to 16 divide it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And thou shall make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
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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The court of the tabernacle - The tabernacle stood in an enclosure or court, open at the top. This court was made with pillars or posts, and hangings. It was one hundred cubits, or about fifty-eight yards and a half, in length; the breadth we learn from Exo 27:12, Exo 27:18; and five cubits, or nearly three yards, high, Exo 27:18. And as this was but half the height of the tabernacle, Exo 26:16, that sacred building might easily be seen by the people from without.
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.
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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְעָשִׂ֕יתָ | veasita | and you will make | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| אֵ֖ת | ʾet | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| חֲצַ֣ר | chatzar | [the] courtyard of | H2691 → | 191 times |
| הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן | hamishkan | the tabernacle | H4908 → | 139 times |
| לִפְאַ֣ת | lifat | for [the] side of | H6285 → | 86 times |
| נֶֽגֶב־ | negev- | [the] south | H5045 → | 112 times |
| תֵּ֠ימָנָה | teimanah | south -ward | H8486 → | 23 times |
| קְלָעִ֨ים | kelaim | curtains | H7050 → | 22 times |
| לֶחָצֵ֜ר | lechatzer | for the courtyard | H2691 → | 191 times |
| שֵׁ֣שׁ | shesh | fine linen | H8336 → | 41 times |
| מָשְׁזָ֗ר | mashezar | twisted | H7806 → | 21 times |
| מֵאָ֤ה | meah | [will be] one hundred | H3967 → | 581 times |
| בָֽאַמָּה֙ | vaamah | by the cubit | H520 → | 247 times |
| אֹ֔רֶךְ | ʾorekh | [the] length | H753 → | 95 times |
| לַפֵּאָ֖ה | lapeah | of the side | H6285 → | 86 times |
| הָאֶחָֽת׃ | haechat | <the> one | H259 → | 971 times |
וְעָשִׂ֕יתָand you will make
veasitaH6213 →2628 times
אֵ֖ת<obj.>
ʾetH853 →10935 times
חֲצַ֣ר[the] courtyard of
chatzarH2691 →191 times
הַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ןthe tabernacle
hamishkanH4908 →139 times
לִפְאַ֣תfor [the] side of
lifatH6285 →86 times
נֶֽגֶב־[the] south
negev-H5045 →112 times
תֵּ֠ימָנָהsouth -ward
teimanahH8486 →23 times
קְלָעִ֨יםcurtains
kelaimH7050 →22 times
לֶחָצֵ֜רfor the courtyard
lechatzerH2691 →191 times
שֵׁ֣שׁfine linen
sheshH8336 →41 times
מָשְׁזָ֗רtwisted
mashezarH7806 →21 times
מֵאָ֤ה[will be] one hundred
meahH3967 →581 times
בָֽאַמָּה֙by the cubit
vaamahH520 →247 times
אֹ֔רֶךְ[the] length
ʾorekhH753 →95 times
לַפֵּאָ֖הof the side
lapeahH6285 →86 times
הָאֶחָֽת׃<the> one
haechatH259 →971 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Ezekiel 42:3Gallery faced gallery in three levels opposite the twenty cubits that belonged to the inner court and opposite the pavement that belonged to the outer court.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 41:15–16
Next he measured the length of the building facing the temple courtyard at the rear of the temple, including its galleries on each side; it was a hundred cubits. The outer sanctuary, the inner…
- Ezekiel 41:10
and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
- Ezekiel 41:15–16
Through
Ezekiel 40:23There was a gate to the inner court facing the north gate, just as there was on the east. He measured the distance from gateway to gateway to be a hundred cubits.
it leads to
- Ezekiel 40:19
Then he measured the distance from the front of the lower gateway to the outside of the inner court; it was a hundred cubits on the east side as well as on the north.
- Ezekiel 40:27–28
The inner court also had a gate facing south, and he measured the distance from gateway to gateway toward the south to be a hundred cubits.
- Ezekiel 40:19
Through
Ezekiel 40:14Next he measured the gateposts to be sixty cubits high. The gateway extended around to the gatepost of the courtyard.
it leads to
- 1 Chronicles 28:6
And He said to me, ‘Solomon your son is the one who will build My house and My courts, for I have chosen him as My son, and I will be his Father.
- Isaiah 62:9
For those who harvest grain will eat it and praise the LORD, and those who gather grapes will drink the wine in My holy courts.”
- Ezekiel 42:1
Then the man led me out northward into the outer court, and he brought me to the group of chambers opposite the temple courtyard and the outer wall on the north side.
- Ezekiel 8:7
Then He brought me to the entrance to the court, and I looked and saw a hole in the wall.
- 1 Chronicles 28:6
Where this verse is studied
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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.
