Exodus 26:27

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, for the far part westward.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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לַיַּרְכָתַ֖יִם

yᵉrêkâh

H3411

“to/for the · sides”

Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Dual, Absolute

Appears 30× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Genesis 49:13

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H3409

TWOT: 916b

flank, side, extreme parts, recesses - side - sides, recesses (dual)

About this verse

These counts appear in no published source. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged text and Lemma’s own curated glosses. What Lemma adds →

13: words
8: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Shared distinctive vocabulary

לַיַּרְכָתַ֖יִם side H3411 occurs in 28 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

10 nouns
3 adjectives

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וַחֲמִשָּׁ֣ה five H2568 ×2
בְרִיחִ֔ם bar H1280 ×2
לְקַרְשֵׁ֥י board H7175 ×2
צֶֽלַע rib H6763 ×2
הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן dwelling place H4908 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 30 words from the Hebrew and 29 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 13 Hebrew tokens and 25 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.

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 26:27 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַחֲמִשָּׁ֣ה בְרִיחִ֔ם לְקַרְשֵׁ֥י צֶֽלַע הַמִּשְׁכָּ֖ן הַשֵּׁנִ֑ית וַחֲמִשָּׁ֣ה בְרִיחִ֗ם לְקַרְשֵׁי֙ צֶ֣לַע הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן לַיַּרְכָתַ֖יִם יָֽמָּה

and five bars for the boards of the other side of the tent, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tent, for the far part westward.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 26:27 Septuagint · lemma form

καί πέντε μοχλός ὁ στῦλος ὁ κλίτος ὁ σκηνή ὁ δεύτερος καί πέντε μοχλός ὁ στῦλος ὁ ὀπίσθιος ὁ κλίτος ὁ σκηνή ὁ πρός θάλασσα

and five bars to one post on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the hinder posts, on the side of the tabernacle toward the sea.

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)

וְחַמְשָׁא עַבְּרִין לְדַפֵּי סְטַר מַשְׁכְּנָא תִּנְיֵתָא וְחַמְשָׁא עַבְּרִין לְדַפֵּי סְטַּר מַשְׁכְּנָא לְסוֹפֵיהוֹן מַעַרְבָא:

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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)

וְחַמְשָׁא נַגְרִין לְלוּחֵי צְטַר מַשְׁכְּנָא תִּנְיָנָא וְחַמְשָׁא נַגְרִין לְלוּחֵי צְטַר מַשְׁכְּנָא לְסוֹפֵיהוֹן מַעֲרָבָא

and five bars for the boards of the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the side of the tabernacle at their extremity towards the west,

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 26:27 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.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(27) For the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward.—This is quite unintelligible. Translate, for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, which is at the back westward.

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

John Gill's Exposition

And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold,.... Not merely gild them, but cover them with thin plates of gold; and which, because it would take up a great quantity of gold, and make the boards very heavy, unless the plates were very thin, when they were taken down and carried from place to place, some have thought they were only glided:

and make their rings of gold, for places for the bars; these were made of solid gold, and were as staples to let the bars into: and, according to Jarchi, there were two rings to every board:

and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold: cover them with plates of gold; and these bars and staples of gold show how compact and firm the church of God is, through his almighty power, as well as how glorious and splendid it is by his grace.

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

Matthew Poole's English Annotations

There was but one side westward. Either therefore here is a transposition of the Hebrew words, which is usual, and the words are thus to be placed and rendered,

westward, looking to both sides, or, westward, according to both the other sides, now mentioned, to note that the number and length of bars in the west end should be equal to those on either of the other sides; or here is an enallage of the number, the dual or plural for the singular, of which there are many examples, and so the words are to be rendered, for the side looking westward.

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

Lesson kit

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is yᵉrêkâh (“side”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “side” (yᵉrêkâh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Genesis 49:13, which shares the word «side», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “five” (2× in this one verse) do in this verse?
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?
Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and John Gill's Exposition read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 13 Hebrew ↔ 25 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 16 words in this verse.
“five” occurs 2× in this single verse.
8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 13 words in this verse.