לְעֻמַּת֙ הַמִּסְגֶּ֔רֶת הָי֖וּ הַטַּבָּעֹ֑ת בָּתִּים֙ לַבַּדִּ֔ים לָשֵׂ֖את אֶת הַשֻּׁלְחָֽן
The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 37:14
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 37:14 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
The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
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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
The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
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King James Version Public Domain
Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The rings were close to the rim to house the poles to carry the table.
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
The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The rings were placed close to the rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The rings were placed close to the rim, to serve as holders for the poles used to carry the table.
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King James Version Public Domain
Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Close by the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Close by the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Against the border were the rings, as places for the barres to beare the Table.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Over against the crown: and he put the bars into them, that the table might be carried.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
over-against the border have the rings been, places for staves to bear the table.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
the rings have been close by the border, places for poles to carry the table.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The rings were attached to the frame to provide places for the poles, in order to carry the table.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The rings were close to the rim to house the poles to carry the table.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Close to the margin were the rings, as receptacles of the staves to carry the table.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Over against the border were the rings, the places for the staffs, to bear the table.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The rings were close to the border to hold the poles used to carry the table.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to be lifted.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the table.
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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הַמִּסְגֶּ֔רֶת
miçgereth
H4526
“the · border”
Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 18× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 25:25
- Part of Speech
- Particle + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
border, fastness, rim
- border, rim
- fastness
- לְעֻמַּת֙ ʻummâh H5980 “to/for · beside of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
- הַמִּסְגֶּ֔רֶת miçgereth H4526 “the · border” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- הָי֖וּ hâyâh H1961 “to be” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
- הַטַּבָּעֹ֑ת ṭabbaʻath H2885 “the · signet rings” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- בָּתִּים֙ bayith H1004 “houses” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- לַבַּדִּ֔ים bad H905 “to/for the · poles” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- לָשֵׂ֖את nâsâʼ H5375 “to lift” Preposition + Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַשֻּׁלְחָֽן shulchân H7979 “the · table” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, 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 הַמִּסְגֶּ֔רֶת border H4526 — appearing just 18 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
הַמִּסְגֶּ֔רֶת border H4526 occurs in 14 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 6 nouns
- 1 particle
Verb forms
- הָי֖וּ Qal · Perfect
- לָשֵׂ֖את Qal · Infinitive Construct
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 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 8 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 16. 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.
πᾶς ὁ αὐλαία ὁ αὐλή ἐκ βύσσος κλώθω
all the curtains of the tabernacle of fine linen twined.
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)
לָקֳבֵל גְדַנְפָא הֲווֹ עִזְקָתָא אַתְרָא לַאֲרִיחַיָא לְמִטַל יָת פָּתוֹרָא:
(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)
כָּל קְבֵיל גִּפּוֹף הֲוָאָה עִזְקָתָא אַתְרָא לַאֲרִיחַיָא לְמֵיטַל יַת פָּתוֹרָא
Over agaagainst the border were the rings, the place for the staves in carrying the table.
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 miçgereth (“border”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “border” (miçgereth) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- How does Exodus 25:25, which shares the word «border», read alongside this verse?
- The Septuagint runs shorter here than the Hebrew. What might account for the difference?
- 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?
- «הָי֖וּ» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
- Compare how unfoldingWord translationNotes and Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 37:14 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 →
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.
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).