Exodus 35:7

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

World English Bible · Public Domain

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מְאָדָּמִ֛ים

ʼâdam

H119

“red”

Verb, Pual, Participle Passive, Masculine, Plural, Absolute

Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 25:5

Full BDB Definition

Origin: of unknown derivation

TWOT: 26b

to be red, red - (Qal) ruddy (of Nazarites) - (Pual) - to be rubbed red - dyed red - reddened - (Hiphil) - to cause to show red - to glare - to emit (show) redness - (Hithpael) - to redden - to grow red - to look red

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 →

7: words
6: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is מְאָדָּמִ֛ים to be red H119 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

מְאָדָּמִ֛ים to be red H119 occurs in 10 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

1 verb
6 nouns

Verb forms

מְאָדָּמִ֛ים Pual · Participle Passive

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

וְעֹרֹ֨ת skin H5785 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 9 words from the Hebrew and 12 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 7 Hebrew tokens and 10 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 35:7 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְעֹרֹ֨ת אֵילִ֧ם מְאָדָּמִ֛ים וְעֹרֹ֥ת תְּחָשִׁ֖ים וַעֲצֵ֥י שִׂטִּֽים

rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood,

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 35:7 Septuagint · lemma form

καί δέρμα κριός ἐρυθροδανόω καί δέρμα ὑακίνθινος καί ξύλον ἄσηπτος

and rams' skins dyed red, and skins dyed blue, and incorruptible wood,

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)

וּמַשְׁכֵי דְדִכְרֵי מְסַמְקֵי וּמַשְׁכֵי דְסַסְגוֹנָא וְאָעֵי שִׁטִין:

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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)

וּמַשְׁכֵי דְדִיכְרֵי מְסַמְקֵי וּמַשְׁכֵי דְסַסְגוֹנָא וְקֵיסֵי דְשִׁיטָא

or rams' skins dyed red, or skins of seals, (purple skins), and woods of sitta;

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 35:7 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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Trapp's Complete Commentary

John Trapp

Exo 35:7 And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,

Ver. 7. {See Trapp on "Exo 35:4"}

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 7. Rams' skins, &c.] See Ex 25:5.

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible (1810–1826) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

7. sealskins] dugong skins (Exo_25:5). So v. 23.

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.

Scofield Reference Notes

C. I. Scofield

shittim

i.e. acacia.

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

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 7 words (6 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is ʼâdam (“to be red”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “to be red” (ʼâdam) contribute to the verse as a whole?
How does Exodus 25:5, which shares the word «to be red», read alongside this verse?
What does the repetition of “skin” (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?
«מְאָדָּמִ֛ים» is a Pual Participle Passive verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
Compare how Trapp's Complete Commentary and Adam Clarke's Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

Things to notice

This verse counts 7 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
“skin” occurs 2× in this single verse.
6 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.