Exodus 38:28

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 38:28 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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Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he made hooks for the pillars with the 1, 775. And he overlaid their tops and filleted them.

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
    Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    With the 1,775 shekels of silver he made the hooks for the posts, overlaid their tops, and supplied bands for them.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five `shekels' he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and made fillets for them.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    But he made the hookes for the pillars of a thousande seuen hundreth and seuentie and fiue shekels, and ouerlayde their chapiters, and made filets about them.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five he made the heads of the pillars, which also he overlaid with silver.
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    and the thousand and seven hundred and five and seventy he hath made pegs for the pillars, and overlaid their tops, and filleted them.
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    and [from] the one thousand and seven hundred and seventy-five [shekels] he has made pegs for the pillars, and overlaid their tops, and filleted them.
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    With the remaining 1,775 shekels of silver, Bezalel made the hooks for the posts, covered the tops of the posts, and made the rods for them.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And he made hooks for the pillars with the 1, 775. And he overlaid their tops and filleted them.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And of the thousand seven hundred and seventy-five [shekels] he made the hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and fastened them [with rods].
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    From the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and filleted them.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    Bezalel used the 1,775 shekels of silver to make the hooks for the posts, cover their tops, and make bands for them.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

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וְחִשַּׁ֥ק
châshaq
H2836
“and · to love”
Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
Part of Speech
Conjunction + Verb
Stem
Piel
Form
Perfect
Person
3rd Person
Gender
Masculine
Number
Singular
Full BDB Definition

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT: 773

(Qal) to love, be attached to, long for - (Piel) fillet - (Pual) fillet
  1. וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
  2. הָאֶ֜לֶף ʼeleph H505 “the · thousand” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Singular, Absolute
  3. וּשְׁבַ֤ע shebaʻ H7651 “and · seven” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
  4. הַמֵּאוֹת֙ mêʼâh H3967 “the · hundred” Particle, Definite Article + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  5. וַחֲמִשָּׁ֣ה châmêsh H2568 “and · five” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
  6. וְשִׁבְעִ֔ים shibʻîym H7657 “and · seventy” Conjunction + Adjective, Cardinal number, Both, Plural, Absolute
  7. עָשָׂ֥ה ʻâsâh H6213 “to do” Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  8. וָוִ֖ים vâv H2053 “hooks” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  9. לָעַמּוּדִ֑ים ʻammûwd H5982 “to/for the · pillars” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
  10. וְצִפָּ֥ה tsâphâh H6823 “and · to overlay” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
  11. רָאשֵׁיהֶ֖ם rôʼsh H7218 “heads · their” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural
  12. אֹתָֽם ʼêth H853 “- · them” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural

About this verse

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13
words
12
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is וְחִשַּׁ֥ק to love H2836 — appearing just 11 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

וְחִשַּׁ֥ק to love H2836 occurs in 11 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 3 verbs
  • 3 nouns
  • 5 adjectives
  • 2 particles

Verb forms

  • עָשָׂ֥ה Qal · Perfect
  • וְצִפָּ֥ה Piel · Perfect
  • וְחִשַּׁ֥ק Piel · Perfect

Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 38:28 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • Exodus 27:17 All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Exodus 38:28 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וְאֶת הָאֶ֜לֶף וּשְׁבַ֤ע הַמֵּאוֹת֙ וַחֲמִשָּׁ֣ה וְשִׁבְעִ֔ים עָשָׂ֥ה וָוִ֖ים לָעַמּוּדִ֑ים וְצִפָּ֥ה רָאשֵׁיהֶ֖ם וְחִשַּׁ֥ק אֹתָֽם

Of the one thousand seven hundred seventy-five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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)

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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.

  1. Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)
    וְיָת אַלְפָא וּשְׁבַע מְאָה וְשִׁבְעִין וְחַמְשָׁא עֲבַד וָוִין לְעַמוּדַיָא וְחִפָּא רֵישֵׁיהוֹן וְכַבֵּשׁ יָתְהוֹן:

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    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)
    וְיַת אַלְפָא וּשְׁבַע מְאָה וְשַׁבְעִין וַחֲמֵשׁ סַלְעִין עֲבַד וָוִין לַעֲמוּדַיָא וַחֲפָא רֵישֵׁיהוֹן וּכְבַשׁ יַתְהוֹן

    And with the thousand and seven hundred and seventy and five shekels, he made hooks for the pillars, and the overlaying of their capitals and their rods.

    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.

Commentary

Notes on Exodus 38:28 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.

Lemma curates 59 commentaries, every one of them public domain or Creative Commons licensed, each selected and text-cleaned for this edition rather than reprinted as found. About our sources →

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(28) Hooks for the pillars.—The pillars of the court had hooks of silver, to which the hangings were attached (Exo_27:10; Exo_27:17; Exo_38:10-12).

Their chapiters.—Comp. Exo_38:17; Exo_38:19.

A Bible Commentary for English Readers, edited by Charles John Ellicott (1878–1897) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

28. See Exo_27:10-11; Exo_27:17 (the hooks and the fillets of the pillars of the Court); Exo_38:17; Exo_38:19 (the chapiters as well).

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

John Gill's Exposition

And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,.... Which were five; see Exo 26:37.

and the brazen altar, and the brazen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar; which were all made of brass; see Exo 27:2.

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The hooks, chapiters, and fillets here spoken of belonged to the pillars of the court. See Exo 27:10, Exo 27:17.

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible (1834–1885) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword/MySword module.

The Pulpit Commentary

Hooks for the pillars. See above, vers. 10, 12, 17, and 19. Chapiters. See ver. 19. Filleted them. Rather, "connected them with rods"

The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Rashi

Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Rashi)

וצפה ראשיהם [HE MADE HOOKS FOR THE COLUMNS] AND OVERLAID THEIR TOPS – the tops of the columns (not of the hooks) with them (the 1775 shekels of silver), for it is said with regard of all of them (the columns of the enclosure as well as of those of the vail at the entrance) (v. 19) “and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets were of silver”.

Rashi on the Tanakh — English translations: “The Judaica Press complete Tanach with Rashi, translated by A. J. Rosenberg” (CC BY 4.0); “Pentateuch with Rashi's commentary by M. Rosenbaum and A.M. Silbermann, 1929-1934” (public domain); “The Metsudah Tanach series, Lakewood, N.J” (CC BY 4.0); and “The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997” (CC BY 4.0). Text via Sefaria.

Lesson kit

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Exodus, in the Pentateuch, opens this verse with 13 words (12 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is châshaq (“to love”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. How does “to love” (châshaq) shape what this verse is saying?
  2. How does Genesis 34:8, which shares the word «to love», read alongside this verse?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. «עָשָׂ֥ה» is a Qal Perfect verb. How does that grammatical form shape the action described?
  5. Compare how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse. Where do they agree or differ?

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