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Exodus 39:15

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 39:15 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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Exodus 39:15 (World English Bible). Public Domain. Lemma interlinear Bible study tool, https://lemma.gebible.app/v/exodus/39/15.

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They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
World English Bible · Public Domain
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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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  • World English Bible Public Domain
    They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathed work of pure gold.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they made twisted chains on the breastpiece, as a work of rope—pure gold.

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
    They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
  • Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
    For the breastpiece they made braided chains like cords of pure gold.
  • Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
    For the breastpiece they made braided chains like cords of pure gold.
  • King James Version Public Domain
    And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathed work of pure gold.
  • American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
    And they made upon the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure gold.
  • Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
    And they made upon the breastplate chains like cords, of wreathen work of pure gold.
  • Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
    After, they made vpon the brest plate cheines at the endes, of wrethen worke and pure golde.
  • Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
    They made also in the rational little chains linked one to another of the purest gold,
  • Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
    And they make on the breastplate wreathed chains, work of thick bands, of pure gold;
  • Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they make wreathed chains on the breastplate, [the] work of thick bands of pure gold;
  • Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
    On the breastpiece they made chains like cords, braided work of pure gold.
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
    And they made twisted chains on the breastpiece, as a work of rope—pure gold.
  • Darby Bible Public Domain
    And they made on the breastplate chains of laced work of wreathen work, of pure gold.
  • World Messianic Bible Public Domain
    They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.
  • Webster's Bible Public Domain
    And they made upon the breast-plate chains at the ends, of wreathed work of pure gold.
  • Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
    They made cords of braided chains from pure gold to attach the breastpiece.
  • Bible in Basic English Public Domain
    And on the bag they put gold chains, twisted like cords.
  • JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
    And they made upon the breastplate plaited chains, of wreathen work of pure gold.

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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9
words
9
distinct lemmas
Pentateuch
section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is גַּבְלֻ֖ת twisting H1383 — appearing just 2 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

גַּבְלֻ֖ת twisting H1383 occurs in 2 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

  • 1 verb
  • 6 nouns
  • 1 adjective
  • 1 preposition

Verb forms

  • וַיַּעֲשׂ֧וּ Qal · Sequential Imperfect

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 14 words from the Hebrew and 16 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.

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Cross-references

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Topical passages linked to Exodus 39:15 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.

  • John 10:28 I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
  • Exodus 28:14 and two chains of pure gold; you make them like cords shall, of braided work: and you shall put the braided chains on the settings.
  • 2 Chronicles 3:5 The greater house he made a ceiling with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and worked thereon palm trees and chains.
  • Song of Solomon 1:10 Your cheeks are beautiful with earrings, Your neck with strings of jewels.
  • John 17:12 While I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name. Those whom you have given me I have kept. None of them is lost, except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
  • 1 Peter 1:5 who by the power of God are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
  • Jude 1:1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:

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Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint

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Hebrew Exodus 39:15 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

וַיַּעֲשׂ֧וּ עַל הַחֹ֛שֶׁן שַׁרְשְׁרֹ֥ת גַּבְלֻ֖ת מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה עֲבֹ֑ת זָהָ֖ב טָהֽוֹר

They made on the breastplate chains like cords, of braided work of pure gold.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 39:15 Septuagint · lemma form

καί ὁ θυσιαστήριον καί πᾶς ὁ σκεῦος αὐτός καί ὁ ἔλαιον ὁ χρίσις καί ὁ θυμίαμα ὁ σύνθεσις

and the ark of the covenant, and its bearers, and the altar and all its furniture.

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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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)
    וַעֲבָדוּ עַל חוּשְׁנָא תִּכִּין מְתַחְמָן עוֹבַד גְדִילוּ דְהַב דְכֵי:

    (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)
    וַעֲבָדוּ עַל חוּשְׁנָא שַׁלְשְׁלַן מְתַחֲמָן עוֹבַד קְלִיעָא דִדְהַב דְּכֵי

    And they made upon the breastplate wreathen chains, entwined work, of pure gold.

    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 9 words (9 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is gabluth (“twisting”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

  1. The word gabluth carries the sense “twisting.” How does it shape the verse?
  2. Exodus 28:22 shares the word «twisting» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
  3. These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
  4. The verb «וַיַּעֲשׂ֧וּ» is Qal Sequential Imperfect. How does its form color the action?

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