וַיַּ֛עַשׂ קַרְסֵ֥י נְחֹ֖שֶׁת חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים לְחַבֵּ֥ר אֶת הָאֹ֖הֶל לִֽהְיֹ֥ת אֶחָֽד
He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 36:18
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 36:18 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
He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
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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
He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he made 50 clasps of bronze to join the tent to be one.
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
He made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
He also made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a unit.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
He also made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together as a unit.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he made fifty taches of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
He made also fiftie taches of brasse to couple the couering that it might be one.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And fifty buckles of brass wherewith the roof might be knit together, that of all the curtains there might be made one covering.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and he maketh fifty hooks of brass to join the tent -- to be one;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and he makes fifty hooks of bronze to join the tent—to be one;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Bezalel made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together so that it might be one piece.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he made 50 clasps of bronze to join the tent to be one.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he made fifty clasps of copper to couple the tent, that it might be one.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He made fifty clasps of bronze to couple the tent together, that it might be a unit.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he made fifty buttons of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
They made fifty bronze clips to join the tent together as a single cover.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And fifty hooks of brass for joining them together to make the tent.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he made fifty clasps of brass to couple the tent together, that it might be one.
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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קַרְסֵ֥י
qereç
H7165
“hooks of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 26:6
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
hook
- וַיַּ֛עַשׂ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- קַרְסֵ֥י qereç H7165 “hooks of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- נְחֹ֖שֶׁת nᵉchôsheth H5178 “bronze” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- חֲמִשִּׁ֑ים chămishshîym H2572 “fifty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- לְחַבֵּ֥ר châbar H2266 “to bind together” Preposition + Verb, Piel, Infinitive Construct
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הָאֹ֖הֶל ʼôhel H168 “the · tent” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- לִֽהְיֹ֥ת hâyâh H1961 “to be” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
- אֶחָֽד ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, 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
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is קַרְסֵ֥י hook H7165 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קַרְסֵ֥י hook H7165 occurs in 7 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 3 nouns
- 2 adjectives
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיַּ֛עַשׂ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- לְחַבֵּ֥ר Piel · Infinitive Construct
- לִֽהְיֹ֥ת Qal · Infinitive Construct
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 10 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter here. See the side-by-side →
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 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.
Here the Septuagint runs noticeably shorter than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 10 words vs World English Bible 17. A rough length comparison of the two English translations, not a word-level alignment — read both below.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί ὁ στίχος ὁ δεύτερος ἄνθραξ καί σάπφειρος καί ἴασπις
and the second row, a carbuncle and sapphire and jasper;
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)
וַעֲבַד פּוּרְפִין דִנְחָשָׁא חַמְשִׁין לְלַפָּפָא יָת מַשְׁכְּנָא לְמֶהֱוֵי חָד:
(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)
וַעֲבַד פּוּרְפִּין דִּנְחָשָׁא לְלַפְּפָא יַת מַשְׁכְּנָא לְמֶהֱוֵי חָד
And he made taches of brass to compact the tabernacle, that it might become one.
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 (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qereç (“hook”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word qereç carries the sense “hook.” How does it shape the verse?
- Exodus 26:6 shares the word «hook» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter here. What questions does that raise?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «וַיַּ֛עַשׂ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 12 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 36:18 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 →
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