Exodus 25:10--27:19
ark <0727> [an ark.]
{Aron} denotes a chest, or coffer, in general; but is applied particularly to the chest or ark in which the testimony or two tables of the covenant were laid up; on the top of which was the propitiatory or mercy seat; and at the end of which were the cherubim of gold; between whom the visible sign of the presence of God appeared as seated upon his throne.
atonement lid <03727> [mercy seat.]
two cherubim ... gold ............ two <08147 03742 02091> [two cherubims of gold.]
atonement lid <03727> [of the. or, of the matter of the.]
cherubim ..... spreading .............. cherubim <03742 06566> [cherubims shall.]
overshadowing <05526> [covering.]
atonement lid ................ atonement lid <03727> [toward.]
atonement lid <03727> [mercy seat.]
ark ..... ark <0727> [in.]
speak <01696> [and I will.]
between <0996> [between.]
table <07979> [a table.]
acacia wood <06086 07848> [shittim wood.]
{Shittim} wood is probably the acacia Nilotica. St. Jerome says, that the {shittim} wood grows in the deserts of Arabia, and is like white thorn, as to its colour and leaves; but the tree is so large as to furnish very long planks. The wood is hard, tough, and extremely beautiful. It is thought he means the black acacia, because that is the most common tree in the deserts of Arabia. It is of the size of a large mulberry tree. The spreading branches and larger limbs are armed with thorns, which grow three together. The bark is rough; and the leaves are oblong, standing opposite each other. The flowers, though sometimes white, are generally of a bright yellow; and the fruit, which resembles a bean, is contained in pods like those of the lupin. "The acacia," says Dr. Shaw, "being by much the largest and most common tree in the deserts," (Arabia Petr‘a,) we have some reason to conjecture that the {shittim} wood was the wood of the acacia, especially as its flowers are of an excellent smell; for the {shittah} tree is, in Isa 41:19, joined with the myrtle and other fragrant shrubs. It may be remarked, that of the two Hebrew names, {shittim} is masculine, and {shittah} feminine. So Mr. Bruce says, "the male is called {saiel;} from it proceeds the {gula} Arabic, on incision with an axe."
frame ............... border ... gold .... frame <02091 02213 04526> [a golden crown to the border.]
four rings ... gold ....... rings .... four ..... four <02885 02091 0702> [four rings of gold.]
provide ..... poles <0905 01004> [for places of the staves.]
table <07979> [the table.]
plates <07086> [the.]
pouring out <05258> [to cover. or, to pour out.]
lampstand ...... lampstand <04501> [a candlestick.]
buds <03730> [his knops.]
almond .................. almond <08246> [like unto.]
Three .................. three <07969> [and three.]
hammered <04749> [beaten.]
seven <07651> [seven.]
set .... up on <05927> [they shall.]
set .... up on ....... give light <05927 0215> [light. or, cause to ascend. give.]
front <06440> [it. Heb. the face of it.]
trimmers <04457> [the tongs.]
trays <04289> [snuff dishes.]
make <06213> [that thou make.]
sure ........... shown .... mountain <02022 07200> [was shewed thee in the mount. Heb. thou wast caused to see in the mount.]
tabernacle ........ ten curtains <04908 06235 03407> [the tabernacle with ten curtains.]
The word {mishcan,} from {shachan,} to dwell, means simply a dwelling-place, or habitation. "When God had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt," says the very learned Dr. Cudworth, "resolving to manifest himself in a peculiar manner present among them, he thought good to dwell amongst them in a visible and external manner; and therefore, while they were in the wilderness, and sojourned in tents, he would have a tent or tabernacle built, to sojourn with them also.--Now, the tabernacle being thus a house for God to dwell in visibly, to make up the notion of dwelling or habitation complete, there must be all things suitable to a house belonging to it. Hence, in the holy place, there must be a table and a candlestick, because these were the ordinary furniture of a room. The table must have its dishes, and spoons, and bowls, and covers, belonging to it, though they were never used; and always be furnished with bread upon it. The candlestick must have its lamps continually burning, etc."
fine twisted linen <08336 07806> [fine twined linen.]
cherubim <03742> [cherubims.]
work .... artistic designer <04639 02803> [cunning work. Heb. the work of a cunning workman, or embroiderer.]
curtain ............ curtain .............. curtains <03407> [curtain.]
joined ............. joined <02266> [coupled together.]
loops ... blue <03924 08504> [loops of blue.]
gold clasps ......... clasps <07165 02091> [taches of gold.]
tabernacle .... unit <04908 0259> [one tabernacle.]
curtains ................ curtains <03407> [curtains.]
goats ..... tent <05795 0168> [goats' hair.]
{Izzim,} goats, but used here elliptically for goats' hair. In different parts of Asia Minor, Syria, Cilicia, and Phrygia, the goats have long, fine, and beautiful hair; in some cases, almost as fine as silk, which is shorn at proper times, and manufactured into garments.
tent <0168> [a.]
eleven <06249> [eleven.]
length ... each curtain ............ curtain ........ same ...... curtains <0259 03407 0753> [length of one curtain.]
five curtains ...... curtains ........... curtain <02568 03407> [five curtains by themselves.]
fifty loops ............. fifty loops <02572 03924> [fifty loops.]
tent <0168> [tent. or, covering.]
hang ..... back <05628 0268> [shall hang over.]
foot and a half ........ foot and a half <0520> [a cubit.]
remains <05736> [of that which remaineth. Heb. in the remainder or surplusage.]
covering ............... covering <04372> [a covering.]
ram skins dyed red ......... leather <05785 0119 0352> [rams' skins dyed red.]
{Oroth ailim meoddamim,} literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact, attested by many respectable travellers, that in the Levant, sheep are often met with having red or violet coloured fleeces. Almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing.
skins .......... fine leather <05785 08476> [badgers' skins.]
{Oroth techashim,} which nearly all the ancient versions have taken to be the name of a colour, though they differ very much with regard to the particular colour intended: the LXX., Vulgate, and Coptic, have skins dyed of a violet colour; the Syriac, azure; and the Arabic, black; and Bochart contends for the hysginus, a very deep blue. It may, however, denote an animal; for Dr. Geddes remarks, had the sacred writer meant to express only a variety of colour, he would hardly have repeated {¢roth,} skins, after {meoddamim,} red, in ch. 25:5.
frames <07175> [boards.]
acacia <07848> [of shittim.]
projections <03027> [tenons. Heb. hands.]
forty silver bases ......... bases ............. bases <0705 0134 03701> [forty sockets of silver.]
bases two bases ..... frame ... two bases ..... frame <0134 08147 0259 07175> [two sockets under one board.]
doubled <08382> [be coupled. Heb. twined. and they shall be coupled together above.]
bars ... acacia wood <01280 07848 06086> [bars of shittim wood.]
overlay ... frames ... gold ....... gold ............ overlay ..... gold <07175 02091 06823> [overlay the boards with gold.]
set .... tabernacle <04908 06965> [rear up the tabernacle.]
plan <04941> [according to the fashion.]
curtain ... blue <06532 08504> [a vail of.]
blue <08504> [blue.]
purple <0713> [purple.]
{Argaman,} a very precious colour, extracted from the purpura, or murex, a species of shell-fish; and supposed to be the same with the costly and much celebrated Tyrian purple.
yarn <08144> [scarlet.]
TolaÆ’th; properly the worm whence the scarlet colour was produced; which grew in a coccus, or excrescence, of a shrub of the ilex kind, like the cochineal worm in the Opuntia of America; which is arranged under the same genus as the Arabic {Kermez,} which also denotes this colour.
work .... artistic designer <04639 02803> [cunning work.]
make ................... made ... cherubim <06213 03742> [cherubims shall it be made.]
posts ... acacia <05982 07848> [pillars of shittim.]
gold hooks .......... gold <02053 02091> [their hooks shall be of gold.]
The Hebrew {waveyhem,} which we translate their hooks, is rendered by the LXX. [kephalides,] and by the Vulgate, {capiata,} capitals. Hence Calmet contends, 1. That if Moses does not mean the capitals of the pillars by this word, he mentions them nowhere else; and it would seem strange, that while he describes them with so much exactness, that he should not mention the capitals; or that pillars every way so correctly formed, should have been destitute of this necessary ornament. 2. As Moses was commanded to make the {wavim} of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver, (ch. 27:10, 11,) and the {wavim} of the pillars of the vail of gold, (ch. 36:36,) and that 1,775 shekels were employed in making them, overlaying their chapiters, {rasheyhem,} their heads, and filleting them, (ch. 38:28,) it is more reasonable to suppose that all this is spoken of the capitals of pillars, than of any kind of hooks, especially as hooks are mentioned under the word taches or clasps. But as the root {wavah} seems to signify to connect, (for [wwy,] in Arabic, is to marry a wife,) and as the letter [ww,] {wav,} if it has not its name from its hook-like form, is yet used as a connective particle, it would rather appear to denote hooks, which connected the curtains or vails to the pillars. The LXX. also render it [agkulai,] "handles", and [krikoi,] "rings" or "clasps".
clasps <07165> [the taches.]
curtain .............. behind ... curtain ... curtain <06532 01004> [within the vail.]
ark .... testimony <0727 05715> [the ark of the testimony.]
Holy Place ..... Holy Place <06944> [the holy place.]
put ... atonement lid <03727 05414> [put the mercy seat.]
table ................. table ........ table <07979> [the table.]
lampstand <04501> [the candlestick.]
hanging <04539> [hanging.]
This may be termed the first vail, as it occupied the door or entrance to the tabernacle; the vail that separated the Holy of Holies is called the second vail, Heb 9:3. Mr. Morier, (Second Journey Through Persia, p. 251,) describing the tent of a chief of the Eelauts, says, "It was composed of a wooden frame of circular laths, which were fixed on the ground, and then covered over with large felts, that were fastened down by a cord, ornamented by tassels of various colours. A curtain, curiously worked by the women, with coarse needle-work of various colours, was suspended over the door. In the king of Persia's tents, magnificent {perdahs,} or hangings of needle-work, are suspended, as well as on the doors of the great mosques in Turkey; and these circumstances combined, will, perhaps, illustrate Ex 26:36."
tent <0168> [the tent.]
blue <08504> [of blue.]
overlay .... gold ....... gold <02091 06823> [overlay them with gold.]
altar ... acacia wood .............. altar <07848 06086 04196> [altar of shittim wood.]
horns .... four corners ... horns <0702 06438 07161> [horns of it upon the four corners thereof.]
The horns might have been designed not only for ornament, but to prevent the sacrifices from falling off, and to tie the victim to, previous to its being sacrificed.
overlay .... bronze <05178 06823> [overlay it with brass.]
shovels <03257> [his shovels.]
bowls <04219> [basons.]
meat hooks <04207> [flesh-hooks.]
fire pans <04289> [firepans.]
grating ..... network <04639 04345> [a grate of network.]
four ... rings .... four corners <0702 02885 07098> [rings in the four corners thereof.]
ledge .... altar ............ altar <04196 03749> [compass of the altar.]
poles .... altar poles <0905 04196> [staves for the altar.]
carrying <05375> [bear it.]
shown <07200> [as it was shewed. Heb. he shewed.]
courtyard ................ courtyard <02691> [the court.]
courtyard ............. hangings .... courtyard <07050 02691> [hangings for.]
bronze bases <0134 05178> [sockets shall be of brass.]
bands ... silver <03701 02838> [fillets shall be of silver.]
hangings .... side <03802 07050> [hangings of one side.]
blue <08504> [of blue.]
embroiderer <07551> [needle-work.]
length .... courtyard <02691 0753> [length of the court.]
seventy-five feet <02572> [fifty every where. Heb. fifty by fifty.]
pegs ...... pegs <03489> [all the pins thereof.]
