Exodus 36:18
in Exodus 36He also made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a unit.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
KJV
And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
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This verse in Exodus 36
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
for the tent over the tabernacle
on Exodus 36:14-19
The second covering is goat hair, eleven curtains over the ten below, and its clasps are bronze where the inner clasps were gold. So the metal grades plainer the further out it sits.
This site's exposition
fifty bronze clasps
The bronze clasps carry out 26:11. The bronze for the whole work came from the contribution of 35:24. Exodus 38:29-31 lists what it made, including the bases of the entrance posts and the courtyard.
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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
God has provided for his people a shadow from the heat, and a covert from storm and rain, Isa. iv. They are armed against all weathers; the sun and the moon shall not smite them: and they are protected from the storms of divine wrath, that hail which will sweep away the refuge of lies, Isa. xxviii.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
On the verses either side of this one
La-ohel (for tent) means to serve as a tent. 40 La-ohel (for tent) literally means to tent. Hence I.E.’s interpretation.
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. 1 further source is cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַיַּ֛עַשׂ | vaiyaas | and he made | H6213 → | 2628 times |
| קַרְסֵ֥י | karsei | hooks of | H7165 → | 10 times |
| נְחֹ֖שֶׁת | nechoshet | bronze | H5178 → | 140 times |
| חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים | chamishim | fifty | H2572 → | 163 times |
| לְחַבֵּ֥ר | lechaber | to join together | H2266 → | 29 times |
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הָאֹ֖הֶל | haohel | the tent | H168 → | 345 times |
| לִֽהְיֹ֥ת | lihyot | to be | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| אֶחָֽד׃ | ʾechad | one | H259 → | 971 times |
וַיַּ֛עַשׂand he made
vaiyaasH6213 →2628 times
קַרְסֵ֥יhooks of
karseiH7165 →10 times
נְחֹ֖שֶׁתbronze
nechoshetH5178 →140 times
חֲמִשִּׁ֑יםfifty
chamishimH2572 →163 times
לְחַבֵּ֥רto join together
lechaberH2266 →29 times
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הָאֹ֖הֶלthe tent
haohelH168 →345 times
לִֽהְיֹ֥תto be
lihyotH1961 →3559 times
אֶחָֽד׃one
ʾechadH259 →971 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
Where this verse is studied
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About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.