עֶ֥שֶׂר אַמֹּ֖ת אֹ֣רֶךְ הַקָּ֑רֶשׁ וְאַמָּה֙ וַחֲצִ֣י הָֽאַמָּ֔ה רֹ֖חַב הַקֶּ֥רֶשׁ הָאֶחָֽד
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 36:21
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 36:21 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
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
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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
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
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King James Version Public Domain
The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The length of a frame ten cubits, and the width of one frame a cubit and a half of a cubit.
unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult).
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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.
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King James Version Public Domain
The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The length of a board was ten cubites, and the bredth of one board was a cubite, and an halfe.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The length of one board was ten cubits: and the breadth was one cubit and a half.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
ten cubits `is' the length of the `one' board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of the `one' board;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
ten cubits [is] the length of the [one] board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of the [one] board;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The length of each frame was ten cubits, and the width of each frame was one and a half cubits.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The length of a frame ten cubits, and the width of one frame a cubit and a half of a cubit.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the width of each board.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Each frame was ten cubits long by one and a half cubits wide.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.
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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הַקָּ֑רֶשׁ
qeresh
H7175
“the · board”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 51× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 26:15
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
board, boards, plank
- board
- boards
- עֶ֥שֶׂר ʻeser H6235 “ten” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- אַמֹּ֖ת ʼammâh H520 “cubits” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- אֹ֣רֶךְ ʼôrek H753 “length of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הַקָּ֑רֶשׁ qeresh H7175 “the · board” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאַמָּה֙ ʼammâh H520 “and · cubit” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- וַחֲצִ֣י chêtsîy H2677 “and · half of” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הָֽאַמָּ֔ה ʼammâh H520 “the · cubit” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- רֹ֖חַב rôchab H7341 “breadth of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הַקֶּ֥רֶשׁ qeresh H7175 “the · board” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- הָאֶחָֽד ʼechâd H259 “the · one” Particle, Definite Article + 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 →
- 10
- words
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַקָּ֑רֶשׁ board H7175 occurs in 34 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 8 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 19 words from the Hebrew and 31 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer 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.
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 longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 31 words vs World English Bible 19. 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 λίθος εἰμί ἐκ ὁ ὄνομα ὁ υἱός ἰσραήλ δώδεκα ἐκ ὁ ὄνομα αὐτός ἐνγράφω εἰς σφράγις ἕκαστος ἐκ ὁ ἑαυτοῦ ὄνομα εἰς ὁ δώδεκα φυλή
And the stones were twelve according to the names of the children of Israel, graven according to their names like seals, each according to his own name for the twelve tribes.
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)
עֲשַׂר אַמִין אֻרְכָּא דְדַפָּא וְאַמְתָא וּפַלְגוּת אַמְתָא פּוּתְיָא דְדַפָּא 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)
עֲשַר אַמִּין אוּרְכָּא דְלוּחָא וְאַמְתָא וּפַלְגָא דְאַמְתָא פּוּתְיָא דְלוּחָא חָד
ten cubits the length of the board, and a cubit and a half of a cubit the breadth of one board.
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 10 words (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qeresh (“board”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “board” (qeresh) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Exodus 26:15 shares the word «board» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “cubit” occurs 3× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs longer here. What questions does that raise?
- 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?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “cubit” occurs 3× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.