וַיַּ֤עַשׂ אֶת הַבַּדִּים֙ עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֔ים וַיְצַ֥ף אֹתָ֖ם זָהָ֑ב לָשֵׂ֖את אֶת הַשֻּׁלְחָֽן
He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 37:15
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 37:15 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 poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
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Compare translations 3
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 poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he made the poles wood of acacias and covered them gold 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
He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
He made the poles of acacia wood for carrying the table and overlaid them with gold.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
He made the poles of acacia wood for carrying the table and overlaid them with gold.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And he made the barres of Shittim wood, and couered them with golde to beare the Table.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And the bars also themselves he made of setim wood, and overlaid them with gold,
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
And he maketh the staves of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with gold, to bear the table;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And he makes the poles of shittim wood, and overlays them with gold, to carry the table;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He made the poles out of acacia wood and covered them with gold, in order to carry the table.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he made the poles wood of acacias and covered them gold to carry the table.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he made the staffs of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He made the poles of acacia wood for carrying the table and covered them with gold.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The rods for lifting the table he made of hard wood plated with gold.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
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שִׁטִּ֔ים
shiṭṭâh
H7848
“acacia trees”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 28× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 25:5
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
acacia tree, acacia wood
- וַיַּ֤עַשׂ ʻâsâh H6213 “and · to do” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַבַּדִּים֙ bad H905 “the · poles” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- עֲצֵ֣י ʻêts H6086 “trees of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
- שִׁטִּ֔ים shiṭṭâh H7848 “acacia trees” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- וַיְצַ֥ף tsâphâh H6823 “and · to overlay” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֹתָ֖ם ʼêth H853 “- · them” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- זָהָ֑ב zâhâb H2091 “gold” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, 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 →
- 11
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Shared distinctive vocabulary
שִׁטִּ֔ים acacia tree H7848 occurs in 28 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 3 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 3 particles
Verb forms
- וַיַּ֤עַשׂ Qal · Sequential Imperfect
- וַיְצַ֥ף Piel · Sequential Imperfect
- לָשֵׂ֖את Qal · Infinitive Construct
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 16 words from the Hebrew and 29 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) 29 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.
καί ὁ βάσις ὁ στῦλος χαλκοῦς καί ὁ ἀγκύλη αὐτός ἀργυροῦς καί ὁ κεφαλίς αὐτός περιἀργυρόω ἀργύριον καί ὁ στῦλος περιἀργυρόω ἀργύριον πᾶς ὁ στῦλος ὁ αὐλή
And the sockets of their pillars of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their capitals overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the court overlaid with silver:
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 אֲרִיחַיָא דְאָעֵי שִׁטִּין וַחֲפָא יָתְהוֹן דַהֲבָא 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)
וַעֲבַד יַת אֲרִיחַיָא דְקִיסֵי שִׁיטָא וַחֲפָא יַתְהוֹן דַּהֲבָא לְמֵיטַל יַת פָּתוֹרָא
And he made the staves of sitta wood, and covered them with gold, for 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 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is shiṭṭâh (“acacia tree”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- The word shiṭṭâh carries the sense “acacia tree.” How does it shape the verse?
- Exodus 25:5 shares the word «acacia tree» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- 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?
- The verb «וַיַּ֤עַשׂ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 11 words in this verse.