Exodus 38:12

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 38:12 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.
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For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the curtains for the side of the west 50 cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten bases. The hooks of the pillars and rings of silver.

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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    The west side was fifty cubits long and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    The west side was fifty cubits long and had curtains, with ten posts and ten bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    On the Westside also were hangings of fiftie cubites, their ten pillars with their ten sockets: the hookes of the pillars and their filets of siluer.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    But on that side that looketh to the west, there were hangings of fifty cubits, ten pillars of brass with their sockets, and the heads of the pillars, and all the graving of the work, of silver.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and at the west side `are' hangings, fifty by the cubit; their pillars `are' ten, and their sockets ten; the pegs of the pillars and their fillets `are' silver;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and at the west side [are] hangings, fifty by the cubit; their pillars [are] ten, and their sockets ten; the pegs of the pillars and their fillets [are] silver;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    The hangings of the west side were fifty cubits long, with ten posts and bases. The hooks and rods of the posts were silver.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And the curtains for the side of the west 50 cubits, with their ten pillars and their ten bases. The hooks of the pillars and rings of silver.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And on the west side, hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their bases ten; the hooks of the pillars and their connecting-rods of silver.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    He made curtains for the west side of the courtyard fifty cubits wide, with ten posts and ten stands.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And on the west side, hangings fifty cubits long, on ten pillars in ten bases, with silver bands.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

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וַחֲשׁוּקֵיהֶ֖ם
châshuq
H2838
“and · fillets · their”
Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Noun
Type
Common
Gender
Masculine
Number
Plural
State
Construct
Full BDB Definition

Origin: past participle of H2836

TWOT: 773b

fillets, binders - rings clasping a pillar of the tabernacle or silver rods between the pillars
  1. וְלִפְאַת pêʼâh H6285 “and · to/for · corner of” Conjunction + Preposition + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct
  2. יָ֗ם yâm H3220 “sea” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  3. קְלָעִים֙ qelaʻ H7050 “slings” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  4. חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים chămishshîym H2572 “fifty” Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  5. בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה ʼammâh H520 “in/at the · cubit” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  6. עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֥ם ʻammûwd H5982 “pillars · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  7. עֲשָׂרָ֔ה ʻeser H6235 “ten” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  8. וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖ם ʼeden H134 “and · bases · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  9. עֲשָׂרָ֑ה ʻeser H6235 “ten” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  10. וָוֵ֧י vâv H2053 “hooks of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct
  11. הָעַמֻּדִ֛ים ʻammûwd H5982 “the · pillars” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  12. כָּֽסֶף keçeph H3701 “silver” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute

About this verse

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13
words
11
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וַחֲשׁוּקֵיהֶ֖ם fillets H2838 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וַחֲשׁוּקֵיהֶ֖ם fillets H2838 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 10 nouns
  • 3 adjectives

Repetition

Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

  • עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֥ם pillar H5982 ×2
  • עֲשָׂרָ֔ה ten H6235 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 26 words from the Hebrew and 28 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.

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 13 Hebrew tokens and 24 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.

These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.

Hebrew Exodus 38:12 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְלִפְאַת יָ֗ם קְלָעִים֙ חֲמִשִּׁ֣ים בָּֽאַמָּ֔ה עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֥ם עֲשָׂרָ֔ה וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖ם עֲשָׂרָ֑ה וָוֵ֧י הָעַמֻּדִ֛ים וַחֲשׁוּקֵיהֶ֖ם כָּֽסֶף

For the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their fillets, of silver.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 38:12 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ποιέω ὁ σκεῦος ὁ τράπεζα ὁ τε τρυβλίον καί ὁ θυΐσκη καί ὁ κύαθος καί ὁ σπονδεῖον ἐν ὅς σπένδω ἐν αὐτός χρυσοῦς

And he made the furniture of the table, both the dishes, and the censers, and the cups, and the bowls with which he should offer drink-offerings, of gold.

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)

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  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּלְרוּחַ מַעַרְבָא סְרָדִין חַמְשִׁין בְּאַמִין עֲמוּדֵיהוֹן עַסְרָא וְסַמְכֵיהוֹן עַסְרָא וָוֵי עַמוּדַיָא וְכִבּוּשֵׁיהוֹן דִכְסָף:

    (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.

  2. Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וּלְרוּחַ מַעַרְבָא וִילַוַן חַמְשִׁין אַמִּין עַמּוּדֵיהוֹן עַשְרָא וְחוֹמְרֵיהוֹן עַשְרָא וָוֵי עַמּוּדַיָא וְכִבּוּשֵׁיהוֹן דִּכְסָף

    And the curtains of the western side, fifty cubits, their pillars ten, and their bases ten; the hooks of the pillars, and their rods, were of silver.

    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.

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (11 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châshuq (“fillets”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “fillets” (châshuq) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. Exodus 27:10 shares the word «fillets» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. “pillar” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
  4. 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?

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