Exodus 25:36

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.

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מִקְשָׁ֥ה

miqshâh

H4749

“hammered work”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute

Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 25:18

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H4748

TWOT: 2086b

hammered work, finely decorated cultic objects of gold or silver

About this verse

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9: words
9: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מִקְשָׁ֥ה hammered work H4749 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מִקְשָׁ֥ה hammered work H4749 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
5 nouns
2 adjectives
1 preposition

Verb forms

יִהְי֑וּ Qal · Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 22 words from the Hebrew and 18 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

A rough comparison of the two English renderings, which tokenize alike — not a word-level alignment.

Word counts can differ between the Hebrew and the Greek without any difference in meaning — e.g. the Hebrew direct-object marker אֵת has no separate Greek word, and Greek often adds the article ὁ.

In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 14 Greek tokens — but the two are counted differently (Hebrew bundles its prefixes and suffixes into one token; the Greek is in lemma form), so that isn’t a like-for-like length.

Cross-references

Topical passages linked to Exodus 25:36 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

Exodus 25:18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat.
Numbers 8:4 This was the workmanship of the lampstand, beaten work of gold. From its base to its flowers, it was beaten work: according to the pattern which Yahweh had shown Moses, so he made the lampstand.
1 Kings 10:16–17 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of gold went to one buckler.
2 Chronicles 9:15 King Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred [shekels] of beaten gold went to one buckler.

Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

The same verse in the two great witnesses to the Old Testament, shown verse-for-verse.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 25:36 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥ם וּקְנֹתָ֖ם מִמֶּ֣נָּה יִהְי֑וּ כֻּלָּ֛הּ מִקְשָׁ֥ה אַחַ֖ת זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר

Their buds and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one beaten work of pure gold.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 25:36 Septuagint · lemma form

ὁ σφαιρωτήρ καί ὁ καλαμίσκος ἐκ αὐτός εἰμί ὅλος τορευτός ἐκ εἷς χρυσίον καθαρός

Let the knops and the branches be of one piece, altogether graven of one piece of pure gold.

LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) · Public Domain

Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) (Public Domain). How the Septuagint differs from the Hebrew →

Targum (Aramaic paraphrase)

The Targum is the ancient Jewish Aramaic paraphrase of the Hebrew Scriptures — an interpretive translation, not the Hebrew text itself. Onkelos (literal) and Pseudo-Jonathan (expansive) render the Torah, and Jonathan the Prophets. Coverage is partial: where no permissively-licensed English translation exists for a verse, only the Aramaic is shown. This is verse-level text, not a word-by-word alignment to the Hebrew.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

חֵזוּרֵיהוֹן וּקְנֵיהוֹן מִנַהּ יְהוֹן כֻּלַהּ נְגִידָא חֲדָא דִדְהַב דְכֵי:

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Targum Onkelos — Aramaic: “Onkelos Genesis” (public domain); “Onkelos Exodus” (public domain); “Onkelos Leviticus” (public domain); “Onkelos Numbers” (public domain); “Onkelos Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “Sefaria Community Translation” (CC0 1.0 (public-domain dedication)); “J.W. Etheridge. The Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch. London: Longmans, Green, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

חֵיזוּרֵיהוֹן וּקְנֵיהוֹן מִינָהּ יְהוֹן כּוּלָהּ נְגִידָא חֲדָא דִדְהַב דְּכֵי

Their apples and their branches shall be of the same; all of it one beaten work of pure gold.

Targum Pseudo-Jonathan — Aramaic: “Targum Jonathan on Genesis” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Exodus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Leviticus” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Numbers” (public domain); “Targum Jonathan on Deuteronomy” (public domain). English: “The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, trans. J. W. Etheridge, London, 1862” (public domain). Text via Sefaria.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 25:36 from classic Christian and Jewish commentators (each source and its license shown beneath its notes). The classic Christian expositions comment on the surrounding passage and are grouped to its opening verse, so a note may address several verses; the Jewish commentaries on the Tanakh (Rashi and others) are per-verse, so they appear only where the commentator wrote on this verse.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

John Gill's Exposition

Which, according to Jarchi, was a sort of forks with which they took the wicks out of the oil, and put them in the lamps; or, as some think, the snuffers, but they are distinguished from tongs, Kg1 7:49 and the snuffdishes thereof shall be of pure gold; in which the tongs or snuffers were put, or into which the snuff itself was put that was snuffed off. Jarchi says they were a sort of small cups, in which they put the ashes of the lamp, morning by morning, when they trimmed the lamps from the ashes of the wicks which burned in the night, and were extinct: so Ben Gersom and Lyra say they were vessels full of water where those were put which were snuffed off, that they might not make a smoke, which is not improbable.

and the snuffdishes thereof shall be of pure gold; in which the tongs or snuffers were put, or into which the snuff itself was put that was snuffed off. Jarchi says they were a sort of small cups, in which they put the ashes of the lamp, morning by morning, when they trimmed the lamps from the ashes of the wicks which burned in the night, and were extinct: so Ben Gersom and Lyra say they were vessels full of water where those were put which were snuffed off, that they might not make a smoke, which is not improbable.

Exodus 25:39

exo 25:39

exo 25:39

exo 25:39Of a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels. The common talent weighed sixty pounds, but the sacred talent was double, and weighed one hundred and twenty pounds, as says Jarchi, and so Ben Melech: a talent of gold amounted to 5067 pounds, three shillings and ten pence of our money, according to Bishop Cumberland (d). (Assuming a troy weight of 12 ounces to a pound, and an ounce of gold worth 400 U.S., than a talent would be worth about 600,000. Editor.)

(d) Of Scripture Weights and Measures, p. 121.

Exodus 25:40

exo 25:40And look that thou make them,.... Or see that they are made by workmen employed:

after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount; from whence it appears, that as Moses was showed the model of the tabernacle, so also of the candlestick, and of all its appurtenances, and of every other vessel in it; and he is strictly charged to look carefully and diligently to it, that everything be done exactly according to the model he had a view of, in which everything was particularly described, and nothing was left to the will, humour, and fancy of men.

Next: Exodus Chapter 26

400 U.S., than a talent would be worth about 600,000. Editor.)

(d) Of Scripture Weights and Measures, p. 121.

Exodus 25:40

exo 25:40And look that thou make them,.... Or see that they are made by workmen employed:

after their pattern, which was showed thee in the mount; from whence it appears, that as Moses was showed the model of the tabernacle, so also of the candlestick, and of all its appurtenances, and of every other vessel in it; and he is strictly charged to look carefully and diligently to it, that everything be done exactly according to the model he had a view of, in which everything was particularly described, and nothing was left to the will, humour, and fancy of men.

Next: Exodus Chapter 26

600,000. Editor.)

(d) Of Scripture Weights and Measures, p. 121.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

36. Shall be of the same — The entire lampstand was to be wrought out of one piece of pure gold, that is, as in Exo_25:31, so that the completed work should form one solid piece.

Daniel D. Whedon (gen. ed.), Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1874–1909) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Lesson kit

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is miqshâh (“hammered work”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “hammered work” (miqshâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Exodus 25:18 shares the word «hammered work» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
The translations on this page render this verse differently — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment. What might account for the different wordings?
The verb «יִהְי֑וּ» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how John Gill's Exposition and Whedon's Commentary on the Bible read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 14 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.