וַיַּ֥עַשׂ אֶת הַקְּרָשִׁ֖ים לַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן עֶשְׂרִ֣ים קְרָשִׁ֔ים לִפְאַ֖ת נֶ֥גֶב תֵּימָֽנָה
He made the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the south side southward.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 36:23
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 36:23 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 the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the south side southward.
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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 the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the south side southward.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he made the frames for the Dwelling: 20 frames for the south side.
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 the boards for the tent: twenty boards for the south side southward.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
He constructed twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
He constructed twenty frames for the south side of the tabernacle,
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King James Version Public Domain
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he made the boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
So he made twentie boardes for the South side of the Tabernacle, euen full South.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Of which twenty were at the south side southward,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he maketh the boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he makes the boards for the Dwelling Place; twenty boards for the south side southward;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He made the frames for the tabernacle in this way: twenty frames for the south side.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he made the frames for the Dwelling: 20 frames for the south side.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he made the boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards for the south side southward;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He made the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
They made twenty frames for the south side of the Tabernacle.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
They made twenty boards for the south side of the House:
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he made the boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward.
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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תֵּימָֽנָה
têymân
H8486
“south · toward”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
- Appears 23× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 26:18
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
south, southward, whatever is on the right (so the southern quarter), south wind
- south (of territory)
- southern quarter (of the sky)
- toward the south, southward (of direction)
- south wind
- וַיַּ֥עַשׂ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַקְּרָשִׁ֖ים qeresh H7175 “the · boards” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- לַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן mishkân H4908 “to/for the · dwelling place” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- עֶשְׂרִ֣ים ʻesrîym H6242 “twenty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
- קְרָשִׁ֔ים qeresh H7175 “boards” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- לִפְאַ֖ת pêʼâh H6285 “to/for · corner of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- נֶ֥גֶב negeb H5045 “south” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- תֵּימָֽנָה têymân H8486 “south · toward” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute + Suffix, Demonstrative
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 תֵּימָֽנָה south H8486 — appearing just 23 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
תֵּימָֽנָה south H8486 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 6 nouns
- 1 adjective
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- וַיַּ֥עַשׂ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- הַקְּרָשִׁ֖ים board H7175 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 14 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.
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 14. 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 ποιέω δύο ἀσπιδίσκη χρυσοῦς καί δύο δακτύλιος χρυσοῦς καί ἐπιτίθημι ὁ δύο δακτύλιος ὁ χρυσοῦς ἐπί ἀμφότεροι ὁ ἀρχή ὁ λογεῖον
and they made two golden circlets and two golden rings.
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 יָת דַפַּיָא לְמַשְׁכְּנָא עֶסְרִין דַפִּין לְרוּחַ עֵבַר דָרוֹמָא:
(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 יַת לוּחַיָא לְמַשְׁכְּנָא עֶשְרִין לוּחִין לְרוּחַ עִיבַר דְּרוֹמָא
And he made the boards of the tabernacle twenty boards, on the side of the south wind;
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 têymân (“south”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word têymân carries the sense “south.” How does it shape the verse?
- Exodus 26:18 shares the word «south» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “board” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs shorter 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?
- The verb «וַיַּ֥עַשׂ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- “board” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 36:23 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.