קְלָעִ֛ים חֲמֵשׁ עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה אַמָּ֖ה אֶל הַכָּתֵ֑ף עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֣ם שְׁלֹשָׁ֔ה וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖ם שְׁלֹשָֽׁה
The hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 38:14
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 38:14 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 hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
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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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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 hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
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King James Version Public Domain
The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The curtains to the side fifteen cubits their three pillars and their three bases.
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 hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
The curtains on one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
The curtains on one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three bases.
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King James Version Public Domain
The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
The hangings for the one side `of the gate' were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
The hangings of the one side were fifteene cubites, their three pillars, and their three sockets:
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Fifteen cubits of which were on one side with three pillars, and their sockets:
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
The hangings on the side `are' fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
The hangings on the side [are] fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their sockets three,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
The hangings for one side of the entrance were fifteen cubits long. They had three posts with three bases.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
The curtains to the side fifteen cubits their three pillars and their three bases.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
the hangings on the one wing of fifteen cubits, their pillars three, and their bases three;
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
the hangings for the one side were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three;
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He made the curtains on one side fifteen cubits long, with three posts and three stands,
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
The hangings on one side of the doorway were fifteen cubits long, on three pillars with their three bases;
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
The hangings for the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
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קְלָעִ֛ים
qelaʻ
H7050
“slings”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- Appears 22× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 27:9
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Plural
- State
- Absolute
Full BDB Definition
sling, slingstones
- curtain, drape, hanging
- קְלָעִ֛ים qelaʻ H7050 “slings” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- חֲמֵשׁ châmêsh H2568 “five” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- עֶשְׂרֵ֥ה ʻâsâr H6240 “teen” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- אַמָּ֖ה ʼammâh H520 “cubit” Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- אֶל ʼêl H413 “to” Preposition
- הַכָּתֵ֑ף kâthêph H3802 “the · shoulder” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- עַמּוּדֵיהֶ֣ם ʻammûwd H5982 “pillars · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- שְׁלֹשָׁ֔ה shâlôwsh H7969 “three” Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖ם ʼeden H134 “and · bases · their” Conjunction + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
- שְׁלֹשָֽׁה shâlôwsh H7969 “three” Adjective, Cardinal number, 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 →
- 10
- words
- 9
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is קְלָעִ֛ים sling H7050 — appearing just 22 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
קְלָעִ֛ים sling H7050 occurs in 22 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 5 nouns
- 4 adjectives
- 1 preposition
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- שְׁלֹשָׁ֔ה three H7969 ×2
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 10 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.
Cross-references
1Topical passages linked to Exodus 38:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 27:14 The hangings for the one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.
Cross-references courtesy of OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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.
καί ὁ καλαμίσκος ἐκ ἀμφότεροι ὁ μέρος αὐτός
the stem solid, and the branches from both its sides;
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)
סְרָדִין חֲמֵשׁ עֶסְרֵי אַמִין לְעִבְרָא עַמוּדֵיהוֹן תְּלָתָא וְסַמְכֵיהוֹן תְּלָתָא:
(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)
וִילַוַן חֲמֵיסְרֵי אַמִּין לְעִבְרָא עַמּוּדֵיהוֹן תְּלָתָא וְחוֹמְרֵיהוֹן תְּלָתָא
And the curtains were fifteen cubits on a side; their pillars three, and their bases three.
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 10 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qelaʻ (“sling”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “sling” (qelaʻ) shape what this verse is saying?
- Exodus 27:9 shares the word «sling» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “three” 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?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 10 Hebrew ↔ 8 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 6 words in this verse.
- “three” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 9 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 10 words in this verse.