כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥ם וּקְנֹתָ֖ם מִמֶּ֣נָּה הָי֑וּ כֻּלָּ֛הּ מִקְשָׁ֥ה אַחַ֖ת זָהָ֥ב טָהֽוֹר
Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 37:22
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 37:22 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
Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
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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.
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World English Bible Public Domain
Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
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King James Version Public Domain
Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Their bulbs and their branches from it were all one piece of hammered work of pure gold.
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
Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The buds and branches were all of one piece with the lampstand, hammered out of pure gold.
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King James Version Public Domain
Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it: the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Their knops and their branches were of the same: it was all one beaten worke of pure gold.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
So both the bowls, and the branches were of the same, all beaten work of the purest gold.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
their knops and their branches have been of the same; all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
their knobs and their branches have been of the same; all of it one beaten work of pure gold.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
Their leafy bases and branches were all one piece with it, one beaten piece of work of pure gold.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Their bulbs and their branches from it were all one piece of hammered work of pure gold.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
Their knobs and their branches were of itself -- all of one beaten work of pure gold.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
Their buds and their branches were of one piece with it. The whole thing was one beaten work of pure gold.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
Their knobs and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The buds and branches were made with the lampstand as one piece, hammered out of pure gold.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
Their knops and their branches were of one piece with it; the whole of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
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מִקְשָׁ֥ה
miqshâh
H4749
“hammered work”
Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- Appears 10× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 25:18
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Feminine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
hammered work, finely decorated cultic objects of gold or silver
- כַּפְתֹּרֵיהֶ֥ם kaphtôr H3730 “capitals · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- וּקְנֹתָ֖ם qâneh H7070 “and · reeds · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- מִמֶּ֣נָּה min H4480 “from · her” Preposition + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- הָי֑וּ hâyâh H1961 “to be” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural
- כֻּלָּ֛הּ kôl H3605 “all · her” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular
- מִקְשָׁ֥ה miqshâh H4749 “hammered work” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- אַחַ֖ת ʼechâd H259 “one” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- זָהָ֥ב zâhâb H2091 “gold” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- טָהֽוֹר ṭâhôwr H2889 “pure” Adjective, Adjective, 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 מִקְשָׁ֥ה hammered work H4749 — appearing just 10 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מִקְשָׁ֥ה hammered work H4749 occurs in 9 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 5 nouns
- 2 adjectives
- 1 preposition
Verb forms
- הָי֑וּ Qal · Perfect
Cross-references
6Topical passages linked to Exodus 37:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 25:31 "You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. Of hammered work shall the lampstand be made, even its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it.
- Psalms 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. A broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
- Isaiah 5:4–5 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to yield grapes, did it yield wild grapes?
- Isaiah 5:10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield an ephah."
- 1 Corinthians 9:27 but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
- Colossians 3:5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
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Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (CC BY 4.0). Greek: Septuagint (public domain); English from a public-domain English Septuagint. 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)
חֵזוּרֵיהוֹן וּקְנֵיהוֹן מִנַהּ הֲווֹ כֻּלַהּ נְגִידָא חֲדָא דְהַב דְכֵי:
(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)
חִיזוּרֵיהוֹן וּקְנֵיהוֹן מִינָהּ הֲווֹ כּוּלָה נְגִידָא חֲדָא דִדְהַב דְּכֵי
Their apples and their branches were of the same, all of it one beaten work of pure gold:
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 miqshâh (“hammered work”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “hammered work” (miqshâh) shape what this verse is saying?
- Exodus 25:18 shares the word «hammered work» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «הָי֑וּ» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 10 words in this verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.