Exodus 26:19

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 26:19 appears in the Hebrew Old Testament. The text above is from the Westminster Leningrad Codex. Each word links to its Strong’s number, a concise gloss, and parsing drawn from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible morphology. Click any word for its full Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) entry.
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You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you shall make 40 bases of silver under the 20 frames: two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under one frame for its two tenons.

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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.

  • World English Bible Public Domain
    You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    with forty silver bases under the twenty frames—two bases for each frame, one under each tenon.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons:
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    And thou shalt make fourty sockets of siluer vnder the twentie boardes, two sockets vnder one boarde for his two tenons, and two sockets vnder an other boarde for his two tenons.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    For which thou shalt cast forty sockets of silver, that under every board may be put two sockets at the two corners.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and forty sockets of silver thou dost make under the twenty boards, two sockets under the one board for its two handles, and two sockets under the other board for its two handles.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and you make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards, two sockets under one board for its two handles, and two sockets under the other board for its two handles.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    You must make forty silver bases to go under the twenty frames. There must be two bases under the first frame to be its two pedestals, and also two bases under each of the other frames for their two pedestals.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And you shall make 40 bases of silver under the 20 frames: two bases under one frame for its two tenons, and two bases under one frame for its two tenons.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And thou shalt make forty bases of silver under the twenty boards; two bases under one board for its two tenons, and two bases under another board for its two tenons.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Make forty silver stands as supports for the twenty frames using two stands per frame, one under every frame peg.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards: two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons;

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הַקָּ֑רֶשׁ
qeresh
H7175
“the · board”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
Part of Speech
Particle + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
State
Absolute
Full BDB Definition

Origin: from an unused root meaning to split off

TWOT: 2079a

board, boards, plank - board - boards
  1. וְאַרְבָּעִים֙ ʼarbâʻîym H705 “and · forty” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  2. אַדְנֵי ʼeden H134 “bases of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  3. כֶ֔סֶף keçeph H3701 “silver” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  4. תַּעֲשֶׂ֕ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
  5. תַּ֖חַת tachath H8478 “under” Preposition
  6. עֶשְׂרִ֣ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  7. שְׁנֵ֨י shᵉnayim H8147 “two” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, Construct
  8. אֲדָנִ֜ים ʼeden H134 “bases” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  9. תַּֽחַת tachath H8478 “under” Preposition
  10. הַקֶּ֤רֶשׁ qeresh H7175 “the · board” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  11. הָאֶחָד֙ ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  12. לִשְׁתֵּ֣י shᵉnayim H8147 “to/for · two” Preposition + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Dual, Construct
  13. יְדֹתָ֔יו yâd H3027 “hands · his” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  14. וּשְׁנֵ֧י shᵉnayim H8147 “and · two” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Dual, Construct
  15. אֲדָנִ֛ים ʼeden H134 “bases” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  16. תַּֽחַת tachath H8478 “under” Preposition
  17. הַקֶּ֥רֶשׁ qeresh H7175 “the · board” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  18. הָאֶחָ֖ד ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  19. לִשְׁתֵּ֥י shᵉnayim H8147 “to/for · two” Preposition + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Dual, Construct
  20. יְדֹתָֽיו yâd H3027 “hands · his” Noun, Common, Both, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

About this verse

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21
words
10
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

First appearance in Scripture

This word makes its first canonical appearance in the Hebrew Bible here:

  • אַדְנֵי base H134

Shared distinctive vocabulary

הַקָּ֑רֶשׁ board H7175 occurs in 34 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 9 nouns
  • 8 adjectives
  • 3 prepositions

Verb forms

  • תַּעֲשֶׂ֕ה Qal · Imperfect

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • שְׁנֵ֨י two H8147 ×4
  • אַדְנֵי base H134 ×3
  • תַּ֖חַת under H8478 ×3
  • הַקָּ֑רֶשׁ board H7175 ×3
  • הָאֶחָד֙ one H259 ×2
  • יְדֹתָ֔יו hand H3027 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 30 words from the Hebrew and 31 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 21 Hebrew tokens and 31 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

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 26:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 38:27 The one hundred talents of silver were for casting the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the veil; one hundred sockets for the one hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
  • Exodus 26:25 There shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
  • Exodus 26:37 You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
  • Exodus 27:10 and the pillars of it shall be twenty, and their sockets twenty, of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.
  • Exodus 27:12–18 For the breadth of the court on the west side shall be hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their sockets ten.
  • Exodus 36:24–26 He made forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.
  • Exodus 38:30–31 With this he made the sockets to the door of the tent of meeting, the brazen altar, the brazen grating for it, all the vessels of the altar,
  • Exodus 40:18 Moses raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards of it, and put in the bars of it, and raised up its pillars.
  • Numbers 3:36 The appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
  • Numbers 4:31–32 This is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
  • Song of Solomon 5:15 His legs are like pillars of marble set on sockets of fine gold. His appearance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.

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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 26:19 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאַרְבָּעִים֙ אַדְנֵי כֶ֔סֶף תַּעֲשֶׂ֕ה תַּ֖חַת עֶשְׂרִ֣ים הַקָּ֑רֶשׁ שְׁנֵ֨י אֲדָנִ֜ים תַּֽחַת הַקֶּ֤רֶשׁ הָאֶחָד֙ לִשְׁתֵּ֣י יְדֹתָ֔יו וּשְׁנֵ֧י אֲדָנִ֛ים תַּֽחַת הַקֶּ֥רֶשׁ הָאֶחָ֖ד לִשְׁתֵּ֥י יְדֹתָֽיו

You shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 26:19 Septuagint · lemma form

καί τεσσαράκοντα βάσις ἀργυροῦς ποιέω ὁ εἴκοσι στῦλος δύο βάσις ὁ στῦλος ὁ εἷς εἰς ἀμφότεροι ὁ μέρος αὐτός καί δύο βάσις ὁ στῦλος ὁ εἷς εἰς ἀμφότεροι ὁ μέρος αὐτός

And you shall make to the twenty posts forty silver sockets; two sockets to one post on both its sides, and two sockets to the other post on both its sides.

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)

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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְאַרְבְּעִין סַמְכִין דִכְסַף תַּעְבֵּד תְּחוֹת עַסְרִין דַפִּין תְּרֵין סַמְכִין תְּחוֹת דַפָּא חַד לִתְרֵין צִירוֹהִי וּתְרֵין סַמְכִין תְּחוֹת דַפָּא חַד לִתְרֵין צִירוֹהִי:

    (no public-domain English translation for this verse)

    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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְאַרְבְּעִין חוֹמְרִין דִּכְסָף תַּעֲבֵיד תְּחוֹת עַשְרִין לוּחִין תְּרֵין חוֹמְרִין תְּחוֹת לוּחָא חָד לִתְרֵין צִירוֹי וּתְרֵין חוֹמְרִין תְּחוֹת לוּחָא חָד לִתְרֵין צִירוֹי

    And thou shalt make forty bases of silver beneath the twenty boards; two bases beneath one board with its two tenons, and two bases under the other board with its two tenons.

    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 26:19 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 →

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Tyndale Open Resources

26:19 Apparently each of the bases stood beneath the junction where the frames met. The right peg of one frame and the left peg of the next frame went into one base. Along with the crossbars (26:27-28), this arrangement would contribute to the stability of the whole.

Tyndale Open Study Notes — © Tyndale Open Resources, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Geneva Bible (1599)

Geneva Bible translators

Or, brass pieces, wherein were the mortises for the tenons.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain. Text via Bolls.life.

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(19) Forty sockets.—Each “socket” was to receive one of the “tenons.” As there were twenty boards (Exo_26:18), and two tenons to each board (Exo_26:17), the sockets had to be forty.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

19. sockets] bases (Eze_41:22 RVm.), or pedestals (cf. Job_38:6 ‘foundations’; Son_5:15 supporting pillars), i.e. solid blocks of silver—acc. to Exo_38:27 weighing a talent (96 lbs.) each—resting on the ground, and, naturally, with ‘sockets’ in them to receive the ‘tenons.’ A talent of silver, of the sacred standard, weighed probably DB. iii. 422b, 419b) about 96 lbs. av.: so that, as a cubit ft. of silver weighs 655 lbs., the talent would amount to about 250 cubic inches, i.e. it might form a block about 7 in. square and 5 in. deep: two such blocks were to stand under each of the frames. Kennedy, however, discarding Exo_38:27 as part of a late addition to P (see on Exo_38:24-31), pictures each base as a square plinth, ¾ cubit on the side and a cubit high, the whole forming thus a continuous wall under the frames; the weight of each base in this case would be about 1240 lbs.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And for the second side of the tabernacle the north side,.... The direction of the tabernacle was east and west; at the east end was the entrance into the holy place, and at the west end the holy of holies; and the two sides were north and south; and as on the south side, so on the north

there shall be twenty boards: just the same number as the laws of building required.

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

Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

Corners. Hebrew tenons, literally, "hands," which has the same meaning as the Vulgate. Some think, the sockets or bases rested on the ground, and had a point which entered into the boards, to keep them in their places. (Lyranus) --- The ornaments on the north and south were the same. (Calmet)

George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

Forty sockets, or bases, or pedestals, or feet, upon which the boards stood, and to which they were fastened.

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible (1683–1685) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible

Daniel D. Whedon

19. Forty sockets — Or bases; since two of these were to be placed under each board to receive the two tenons. Comp. Exo_26:17. They were evidently of the nature of morticed blocks of silver, which formed a continuous foundation for the board structure, and would serve to separate and keep the lower ends of the boards from the ground.

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

The Pulpit Commentary

Forty sockets of silver. Nothing is said of the shape of these "sockets." They were certainly very massive, as each contained a silver talent, (Exo_38:27) and thus weighed from eighty to ninety pounds. It has been supposed that they stood on the ground, and formed a sort of continuous base, out of which the planks rose. But this would have constituted a very unsafe structure. Kalisch is probably right in his view, that the sockets were let into the ground resembling those at the bottom of a gate, into which the bolt is pressed down. Each socket received one of the "tenons."

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

sockets of silver

Silver symbolizes redemption. (See Scofield "Exo 25:1").

(See Scofield "Exo 38:27"). All the tabernacle rests upon silver except the hangings of the gate, the way of access. See Scofield "Exo 27:17".

The Scofield Reference Bible (1917 edition), notes by C. I. Scofield — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Yahweh continues telling Moses what the people must do.

silver bases

These were silver blocks that had a slot in them to keep the board in place.

pedestals

The silver bases kept the wooden board off the ground.

There must be two bases

This can be stated in active form. AT: "Put two bases" (See: Active or Passive)

and so on

This means that what was said about the first two boards should be done for the rest of the boards. This can be stated clearly in the translation. AT: "and two bases for each of the rest of the boards" (See: Assumed Knowledge and Implicit Information)

translationWords

silver

tabernacle

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

Lesson kit

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 21 words (10 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qeresh (“board”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “board” (qeresh) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. The word “base” first appears here in Scripture. What is being introduced at this debut?
  3. Exodus 26:15 shares the word «board» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  4. “two” occurs 4× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  5. These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
  6. The verb «תַּעֲשֶׂ֕ה» is Qal Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
  7. Reading how Tyndale Open Study Notes and Geneva Bible (1599) read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

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