Exodus 36:38
in Exodus 36together 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.
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This verse in Exodus 36
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThe 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| עַמּוּדָ֤יו | ʾamudav | pillars its | H5982 → | 111 times |
| חֲמִשָּׁה֙ | chamishah | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| וְאֶת־ | veet | and <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| וָ֣וֵיהֶ֔ם | vaveihem | hooks their | H2053 → | 13 times |
| וְצִפָּ֧ה | vetzipah | and he overlaid | H6823 → | 47 times |
| רָאשֵׁיהֶ֛ם | rasheihem | tops their | H7218 → | 599 times |
| וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖ם | vachashukeihem | and bands their | H2838 → | 8 times |
| זָהָ֑ב | zahav | gold | H2091 → | 389 times |
| וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥ם | veadneihem | and bases their | H134 → | 57 times |
| חֲמִשָּׁ֖ה | chamishah | five | H2568 → | 343 times |
| נְחֹֽשֶׁת׃ פ | nechoshet | [were] bronze | H5178 → | 140 times |
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 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
Exodus 27:10with 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.
- Exodus 26:19–21
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 and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.
