וּבַחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת אֶ֛בֶן לְמַלֹּ֖את וּבַחֲרֹ֣שֶׁת עֵ֑ץ לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת בְּכָל מְלֶ֥אכֶת מַחֲשָֽׁבֶת
in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 35:33
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 35:33 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.
English Translation
in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
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The same verse in 3 English versions, stacked beneath the original-language interlinear above. Click any original word for its lexicon entry.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
Highlighted words mark where these versions differ — a whole-verse word diff, not a word-by-word alignment.
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World English Bible Public Domain
in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
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King James Version Public Domain
And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and in carving of precious stones for setting and in carving of wood, to do all kinds of craftsmanship of invention.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
Show all 18 translations
Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every artistic craft.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
to cut gemstones for settings, and to carve wood, so that he may be a master of every artistic craft.
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King James Version Public Domain
And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of cunning work.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of cunning workmanship.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And in grauing stones to set them, and in karuing of wood, euen to make any maner of fine worke.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And in engraving stones, and in carpenters' work. Whatsoever can be devised artificially,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and in graving of stones for settings, and in graving of wood to work in any work of design.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and in a carving of stones for settings, and in a carving of wood to work in any work of design.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
also to cut and set stones and to carve wood—to do all kinds of design and craftsmanship.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
and in carving of precious stones for setting and in carving of wood, to do all kinds of craftsmanship of invention.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
and in cutting of stones, for setting, and in carving of wood, to execute all artistic work;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And in the cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of wood, to make any manner of curious work.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
he can cut gemstones to place in settings, and he can carve wood. He is a master of every craft.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
Trained in the cutting of stones and the ornamenting of wood and in every sort of handwork.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
and in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all manner of skilful workmanship.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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וּבַחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת
chărôsheth
H2799
“and · in/at · carving of”
Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- Appears 4× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 31:5
- Part of Speech
- Conjunction + Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
carving, skilful working
- וּבַחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת chărôsheth H2799 “and · in/at · carving of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- אֶ֛בֶן ʼeben H68 “stone” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- לְמַלֹּ֖את mâlêʼ H4390 “to fill” Preposition + Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct
- וּבַחֲרֹ֣שֶׁת chărôsheth H2799 “and · in/at · carving of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- עֵ֑ץ ʻêts H6086 “tree” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
- בְּכָל kôl H3605 “in/at · all of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- מְלֶ֥אכֶת mᵉlâʼkâh H4399 “work of” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- מַחֲשָֽׁבֶת machăshâbâh H4284 “thought” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
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 →
- 9
- words
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וּבַחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת carving H2799 — appearing just 4 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וּבַחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת carving H2799 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 7 nouns
Verb forms
- לְמַלֹּ֖את Piel · Infinitive Construct
- לַעֲשׂ֖וֹת Qal · Infinitive Construct
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- וּבַחֲרֹ֥שֶׁת carving H2799 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 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.
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.
καί λιθουργέω ὁ λίθος καί καταἐργάζομαι ὁ ξύλον καί ποιέω ἐν πᾶς ἔργον σοφία
and to work in stone, and to fashion the wood, and to work in every work of wisdom.
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.
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Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וּבְאוּמָנוּת אֶבֶן טָבָא לְאַשְׁלָמָא וּבְנַגָרוּת אָעָא לְמֶעְבַּד בְּכָל עִבִידַת אוּמַנְוָן:
(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.
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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
וּבְאַגְלָפוּת מַרְגְּלִיתָא טַבְתָא לְאַשְׁלָמוּת בְּהוֹן יַת עִיבִידְתָּא וּבְנַגָּרוּת קִיסָא לְמֶעֱבַד בְּכָל עִיבִידַת אוּמַנְוָון
and in the cutting of precious stones, to perfect by them the work, and in the fabrication of wood, to work in all the work of artificers.
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.
Lesson kit
Teaching starters — assembled from the data on this page, not authored interpretation. Every prompt links to the verse data it draws on. Edit before teaching.
Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 9 words (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is chărôsheth (“carving”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word chărôsheth carries the sense “carving.” How does it shape the verse?
- Exodus 31:5 shares the word «carving» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “carving” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «לְמַלֹּ֖את» is Piel Infinitive Construct. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 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 16 words in this verse.
- “carving” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 35:33 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 →
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne
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.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary
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).