וַיִּצֹ֞ק אַרְבַּ֧ע טַבָּעֹ֛ת בְּאַרְבַּ֥ע הַקְּצָוֺ֖ת לְמִכְבַּ֣ר הַנְּחֹ֑שֶׁת בָּתִּ֖ים לַבַּדִּֽים
He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 38:5
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 38:5 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
He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.
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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.
Each is an independent rendering of the whole verse — the interlinear is not word-aligned to these translations.
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
He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he cast four rings on the four ends for the grate of bronze, as holders for the poles.
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
He cast four rings for the four ends of brass grating, to be places for the poles.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
At the four corners of the bronze grate he cast four rings as holders for the poles.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
At the four corners of the bronze grate he cast four rings as holders for the poles.
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King James Version Public Domain
And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staves.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be places for the staves.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be places for the staves.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
And cast foure rings of brasse for the foure endes of the grate to put barres in.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
Casting four rings at the four ends of the net at the top, to put in bars to carry it.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and he casteth four rings for the four ends of the brazen grate -- places for bars;
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and he casts four rings for the four ends of the bronze grate—places for bars;
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
He cast four rings for the four corners of the bronze grate, as holders for the poles.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And he cast four rings on the four ends for the grate of bronze, as holders for the poles.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And he cast four rings for the four corners of the grating of copper, as receptacles for the staves.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
He cast four rings for the four corners of bronze grating, to be places for the poles.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of brass, to be places for the staffs.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
He cast four bronze rings for the four corners of the grate as holders for the poles.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And four rings for the four angles of this network, to take the rods.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grating of brass, to be holders for the staves.
Literal Standard Version (2020), Covenant Press — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). Unlocked Literal Bible (unfoldingWord) — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org). unfoldingWord Literal Text — © unfoldingWord, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Word-aligned USFM3 via Door43 (git.door43.org/unfoldingWord/en_ult). Free Bible Version, Dr. Jonathan Gallagher — licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Text via the HelloAO Bible API (eBible.org).
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לְמִכְבַּ֣ר
makbêr
H4345
“to/for · lattice of”
Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- Appears 6× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 27:4
- Part of Speech
- Preposition + Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
grating, lattice-work
- וַיִּצֹ֞ק yâtsaq H3332 “and · to pour” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אַרְבַּ֧ע ʼarbaʻ H702 “four” Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- טַבָּעֹ֛ת ṭabbaʻath H2885 “signet rings” Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- בְּאַרְבַּ֥ע ʼarbaʻ H702 “in/at · four” Preposition + Adjective, Cardinal number, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- הַקְּצָוֺ֖ת qᵉtsâth H7117 “the · ends” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute
- לְמִכְבַּ֣ר makbêr H4345 “to/for · lattice of” Preposition + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הַנְּחֹ֑שֶׁת nᵉchôsheth H5178 “the · bronze” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute
- בָּתִּ֖ים bayith H1004 “houses” Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute
- לַבַּדִּֽים bad H905 “to/for the · poles” Preposition, Determined + Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, 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
- 8
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is לְמִכְבַּ֣ר lattice H4345 — appearing just 6 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
לְמִכְבַּ֣ר lattice H4345 occurs in 6 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 1 verb
- 6 nouns
- 2 adjectives
Verb forms
- וַיִּצֹ֞ק Qal · Sequential Imperfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- אַרְבַּ֧ע four H702 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In English translation the verse runs 17 words from the Hebrew and 11 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 9 Hebrew tokens and 9 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 38:5 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 27:4 You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four brazen rings in its four corners.
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) 11 words vs World English Bible 17. 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 ποιέω ὁ ἱλαστήριον ἐπάνωθεν ὁ κιβωτός ἐκ χρυσίον
And he made the propitiatory over the ark of pure 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)
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)
וְאַתִּיךְ אַרְבַּע עִזְקָתָא בְּאַרְבַּע סִטְרָתָא לִסְרָדָא דִנְחָשָׁא אַתְרָא לַאֲרִיחַיָא:
(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)
וְאַתֵּיךְ אַרְבַּע עִזְקַן בְּאַרְבַּע זִוְיָתֵיהּ לְקַנְקַל דִּנְחָשָׁא אַתְרָא לַאֲרִיחַיָא
And he cast four rings, for the four corners of the grate, of brass, (to be) places for the staves.
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 (8 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is makbêr (“lattice”). The Greek Septuagint runs shorter here. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- What does “lattice” (makbêr) contribute to the verse as a whole?
- Exodus 27:4 shares the word «lattice» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “four” 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?
- 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?
- The verb «וַיִּצֹ֞ק» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 9 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 8 words in this verse.
- “four” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 8 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.