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Exodus 36:38

in Exodus 36

together with five posts and their hooks. He overlaid the tops of the posts and their bands with gold, and their five bases were bronze.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their capitals and their fillets with gold; and their five sockets were of brass.

KJV

And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.

This verse in Exodus 36

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The five pillars of it with their hooks - Their capitals. See Clarke on Exo 26:32 (note), etc. There is scarcely any thing particular in this chapter that has not been touched on before; both it and the following to the end of the book being in general a repetition of what we have already met in detail in the preceding chapters from Exodus 25 to 31 inclusive, and to those the reader is requested to refer.

This site's exposition

For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain

on Exodus 36:37-38

The door curtain uses the veil's four materials without its cherubim. Its five posts stand in bronze bases where the veil's four stand in silver. The chapter grades every material by how far in it sits.

This site's exposition

five posts and their hooks

Exodus 26:37 orders the five posts overlaid with gold, and this verse specifies gold on their tops and bands. Adam Clarke takes the hooks as the capitals of the posts. The courtyard posts of 38:17 have their tops and bands in silver.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • עַמּוּדָ֤יוpillars its

    ʾamudavH5982 →111 times

  • חֲמִשָּׁה֙five

    chamishahH2568 →343 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • וָ֣וֵיהֶ֔םhooks their

    vaveihemH2053 →13 times

  • וְצִפָּ֧הand he overlaid

    vetzipahH6823 →47 times

  • רָאשֵׁיהֶ֛םtops their

    rasheihemH7218 →599 times

  • וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖םand bands their

    vachashukeihemH2838 →8 times

  • זָהָ֑בgold

    zahavH2091 →389 times

  • וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥םand bases their

    veadneihemH134 →57 times

  • חֲמִשָּׁ֖הfive

    chamishahH2568 →343 times

  • נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ פ[were] bronze

    nechoshetH5178 →140 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

2 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

    Exodus 27:10

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

    it leads to

    • Exodus 26:19–21

      with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.

    • Jeremiah 52:21

      Each pillar was eighteen cubits tall and twelve cubits in circumference; each was hollow, four fingers thick.

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.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.