Exodus 38:16
in Exodus 38All the curtains around the courtyard were made of finely spun linen.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
KJV
All the hangings of the court round about were of fine twined linen.
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This verse in Exodus 38
Commentary
3 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
The curtains on one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long
on Exodus 38:14-17
Every pillar of the court is banded and capped in silver. Verse 28 says that silver is the 1,775 shekels left from the ransom money after the hundred sockets of the dwelling were cast.
This site's exposition
All the curtains around the courtyard
John Wesley reads the courtyard as the Old Testament church, a garden enclosed within a small space. He takes its walls of curtain, which could be taken down, as a sign that confining the church to one nation would end. The linen was finely spun on all four sides.
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 words behind it
6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כָּל־ | kol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| קַלְעֵ֧י | kalei | [the] curtains of | H7050 → | 22 times |
| הֶחָצֵ֛ר | hechatzer | the courtyard | H2691 → | 191 times |
| סָבִ֖יב | saviv | all around | H5439 → | 336 times |
| שֵׁ֥שׁ | shesh | [were] fine linen | H8336 → | 41 times |
| מָשְׁזָֽר׃ | mashezar | twisted | H7806 → | 21 times |
כָּל־all
kol-H3605 →5413 times
קַלְעֵ֧י[the] curtains of
kaleiH7050 →22 times
הֶחָצֵ֛רthe courtyard
hechatzerH2691 →191 times
סָבִ֖יבall around
savivH5439 →336 times
שֵׁ֥שׁ[were] fine linen
sheshH8336 →41 times
מָשְׁזָֽר׃twisted
mashezarH7806 →21 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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch.