Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
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Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
with their four pillars and their four bases bronze, and their hooks silver, and the plating of their tops and its rings silver.
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Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
with four posts and four bronze bases. Their hooks were silver, as well as the bands and the plating of their tops.
with four posts and four bronze bases. Their hooks were silver, as well as the bands and the plating of their tops.
And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.
And their pillars were foure with their foure sockets of brasse: their hookes of siluer, and the couering of their chapiters, and their filets of siluer.
And the pillars in the entry were four with sockets of brass, and their heads and gravings of silver.
and their pillars `are' four, and their sockets of brass four, their pegs `are' of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their fillets `are' of silver;
and their pillars [are] four, and their sockets of bronze four, their pegs [are] of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their fillets [are] of silver;
It had four bronze bases and silver hooks. The covering for their tops and its rods were made of silver.
with their four pillars and their four bases bronze, and their hooks silver, and the plating of their tops and its rings silver.
and their pillars four, and their bases four, of copper; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their connecting-rods of silver.
Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of bronze; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.
It was held up by four posts and four stands. The posts had silver hooks, tops, and bands.
There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.
And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their fillets of silver.
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Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is וְצִפּ֧וּי metal plating H6826 — appearing just 5 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
וְצִפּ֧וּי metal plating H6826 occurs in 5 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
Repetition
Words recur within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 25 words from the Hebrew and 27 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — closely comparable.
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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.
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.
וְעַמֻּֽדֵיהֶם֙ אַרְבָּעָ֔ה וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥ם אַרְבָּעָ֖ה נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וָוֵיהֶ֣ם כֶּ֔סֶף וְצִפּ֧וּי רָאשֵׁיהֶ֛ם וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖ם כָּֽסֶף
Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.
World English Bible · Public Domain
οὗτος ποιέω καί ὁ κρίκος ὁ σκηνή χρυσοῦς καί ὁ κρίκος ὁ αὐλή καί κρίκος εἰς ὁ ἐκτείνω ὁ κατακάλυμμα ἄνωθεν χαλκοῦς
He made also the rings of the tabernacle of gold; and the rings of the court, and the rings for drawing out the veil above of brass.
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 →
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.
וְעַמוּדֵיהוֹן אַרְבְּעָא וְסַמְכֵיהוֹן אַרְבְּעָא נְחָשָׁא וָוֵיהוֹן דִכְסַף וְחִפּוּי רֵישֵׁיהוֹן 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.
וְעַמּוּדֵיהוֹן אַרְבְּעָא וְחוֹמְרֵיהוֹן אַרְבְּעָא דִנְחָשָׁא וָוֵיהוֹן כְּסַף וְחִפּוּי רֵישֵׁיהוֹן וְכִבּוּשֵׁיהוֹן כְּסָף
And their pillars four, and their bases four, of brass; their hooks silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their rods, 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 11 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is tsippûwy (“metal plating”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 38:19 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.
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The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.