Exodus 39:4

Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex)

English Translation

They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.

World English Bible · Public Domain

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Septuagint runs longer here — compare

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קצוותו

qᵉtsâth

H7117

“ends · his”

Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular

Appears 8× in the Hebrew Bible
First appears at Exodus 37:8

Full BDB Definition

Origin: from H7096

TWOT: 2053e

end, part - end - of corners, of earth - from the end of - at the end of

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
7: distinct lemmas
Pentateuch: section

Notable vocabulary

The rarest word here is קצוותו end H7117 — appearing just 8 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.

Shared distinctive vocabulary

קצוותו end H7117 occurs in 8 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:

Grammatical profile

3 verbs
3 nouns
1 adjective
2 prepositions

Verb forms

עָֽשׂוּ Qal · Perfect
חֹבְרֹ֑ת Qal · Participle Active
חֻבָּֽר Pual · Perfect

Repetition

A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:

חֹבְרֹ֑ת to bind together H2266 ×2

Hebrew & Septuagint length

In English translation the verse runs 15 words from the Hebrew and 24 from the Septuagint (LXX English) — the Septuagint runs noticeably longer 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.

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 longer than the Hebrew — LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) 24 words vs World English Bible 15. 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.

Hebrew Exodus 39:4 Masoretic · Westminster Leningrad Codex

כְּתֵפֹ֥ת עָֽשׂוּ ל֖וֹ חֹבְרֹ֑ת עַל שְׁנֵ֥י קצוותו קְצוֹתָ֖יו חֻבָּֽר

They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.

World English Bible · Public Domain

Greek LXX Exodus 39:4 Septuagint · lemma form

καί γίγνομαι ὁ ἑκατόν τάλαντον ὁ ἀργύριον εἰς ὁ χώνευσις ὁ ἑκατόν κεφαλίς ὁ σκηνή καί εἰς ὁ κεφαλίς ὁ καταπέτασμα ἑκατόν κεφαλίς εἰς ὁ ἑκατόν τάλαντον τάλαντον ὁ κεφαλίς

And the hundred talents of silver went to the casting of the hundred capitals of the tabernacle, and to the capitals of the veil;

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.

Targum Onkelos Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

כַּתְפָּן עֲבָדוּ לֵהּ מְלַפְּפָן עַל תְּרֵין סִטְרוֹהִי יִתְלָפֵף:

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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.
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan Torah (Genesis–Deuteronomy)

כַּתְפִין עָבְדוּ לֵיהּ מְלַפְפָן עַל תְּרֵין צִטְרוֹי מִתְלָפֵף

Shoulderpieces made they for it conjoined; upon its two sides were they conjoined.

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 39:4 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 →

The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne

4. They made shoulder-straps for it, joined (to it); at its two (top) edges was it joined (to them)] See on Exo_28:7.

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.

unfoldingWord translationNotes

Door43 World Missions Community

General Information:

Bezalel's work crew continues to make the priestly garments.

it was made of one piece with the ephod, made of fine twined linen

This can be stated in active form. AT: "they made it as one piece with the ephod with fine twisted linen" (See: Active or Passive)

as Yahweh had commanded Moses

"just as Yahweh told Moses to do." See how you translated this phrase in Exodus 39:01.

translationWords

ephod

gold

Yahweh

command

Moses

unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.

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 (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is qᵉtsâth (“end”). The Greek Septuagint runs longer here. A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.

Discussion questions

What does “end” (qᵉtsâth) contribute to the verse as a whole?
Exodus 37:8 shares the word «end» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
“to bind together” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
Compared with the Hebrew, the Septuagint runs longer here. What questions does that raise?
These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
The verb «עָֽשׂוּ» is Qal Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Reading how The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges and unfoldingWord translationNotes read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?

Things to notice

These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
“to bind together” occurs 2× in this single verse.
7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.