Exodus 38:10
in Exodus 38with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases, and with silver hooks and bands on the posts.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
their pillars were twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
KJV
Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
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This verse in Exodus 38
Commentary
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Then he constructed the courtyard
on Exodus 38:9-13
The court is walled with cloth, a hundred cubits by fifty, and every hanging around it is plain white linen. Colour is held back for the gate alone in verse 18.
This site's exposition
silver hooks and bands
Jamieson, Fausset and Brown hold that the hooks on the courtyard posts were for hanging the carcasses of the sacrificial animals. The hooks at the tent entrance, on their reading, held the priestly robes and other things used in the service. These hooks are silver.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Commentary on Chapter XXXVIII 1. The altar of burnt-offering - On this all their sacrifices were offered. Christ was himself the altar to his own sacrifice of atonement, and so he is to all our sacrifices of acknowledgment.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
hooks--The hooks of the pillars in the court were for hanging up the carcasses of the sacrificial beasts--those on the pillars at the entry of the tabernacle were for hanging the sacerdotal robes and other things used in the service.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֣ם | ʾamudeihem | pillars their | H5982 → | 111 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֔ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥ם | veadneihem | and bases their | H134 → | 57 times |
| עֶשְׂרִ֖ים | ʾesrim | twenty | H6242 → | 315 times |
| נְחֹ֑שֶׁת | nechoshet | [were] bronze | H5178 → | 140 times |
| וָוֵ֧י | vavei | [the] hooks of | H2053 → | 13 times |
| הָעַמֻּדִ֛ים | haamudim | the pillars | H5982 → | 111 times |
| וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖ם | vachashukeihem | and bands their | H2838 → | 8 times |
| כָּֽסֶף׃ | kasef | [were] silver | H3701 → | 403 times |
עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֣םpillars their
ʾamudeihemH5982 →111 times
עֶשְׂרִ֔יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥םand bases their
veadneihemH134 →57 times
עֶשְׂרִ֖יםtwenty
ʾesrimH6242 →315 times
נְחֹ֑שֶׁת[were] bronze
nechoshetH5178 →140 times
וָוֵ֧י[the] hooks of
vaveiH2053 →13 times
הָעַמֻּדִ֛יםthe pillars
haamudimH5982 →111 times
וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖םand bands their
vachashukeihemH2838 →8 times
כָּֽסֶף׃[were] 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
This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.