וּמָשַׁחְתָּ֥ אֶת הַכִּיֹּ֖ר וְאֶת כַּנּ֑וֹ וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ֖ אֹתֽוֹ
You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 40:11
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 40:11 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
You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
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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
You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall anoint the basin and its base and set it apart.
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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Every available English version of this verse, each an independent rendering of the whole verse.
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World English Bible Public Domain
You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Anoint the basin and its stand and consecrate them.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Also thou shalt anoynt the Lauer, and his foote, and shalt sanctifie it.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
The laver with its foot: thou shalt consecrate all with the oil of unction, that they may be most holy.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
and thou hast anointed the laver and its base, and sanctified it.
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
and you have anointed the laver and its base, and sanctified it.
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You must anoint the bronze basin and its base and set it apart to me.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall anoint the basin and its base and set it apart.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt anoint the laver and its stand, and hallow it.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
You shall anoint the basin and its base, and sanctify it.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt anoint the laver and its foot, and sanctify it.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Anoint and dedicate the basin with its stand.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And put oil on the washing-vessel and its base, and make them holy.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And thou shalt anoint the laver and its base, and sanctify it.
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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כַּנּ֑וֹ
kên
H3653
“pedestal · his”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- Appears 17× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Genesis 40:13
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
base, stand, pedestal, office, foot, place, estate
- base, pedestal
- office, place
- וּמָשַׁחְתָּ֥ mâshach H4886 “and · to anoint” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הַכִּיֹּ֖ר kîyôwr H3595 “the · pot” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute
- וְאֶת ʼêth H853 “and · -” Conjunction + Particle, Direct Object
- כַּנּ֑וֹ kên H3653 “pedestal · his” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
- וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ֖ qâdash H6942 “and · to consecrate” Conjunction + Verb, Piel, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֹתֽוֹ ʼêth H853 “- · him” Particle, Direct Object + Suffix, Personal, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular
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 →
- 7
- words
- 5
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is כַּנּ֑וֹ pedestal H3653 — appearing just 17 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
כַּנּ֑וֹ pedestal H3653 occurs in 17 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 2 nouns
- 3 particles
Verb forms
- וּמָשַׁחְתָּ֥ Qal · Sequential Perfect
- וְקִדַּשְׁתָּ֖ Piel · Sequential Perfect
Hebrew and Greek witnesses Masoretic Hebrew ↔ Greek Septuagint
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.
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)
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)
וּתְרַבֵּי יָת כִּיוֹרָא וְיָת בְּסִיסֵהּ וּתְקַדֵשׁ יָתֵהּ:
(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)
וּתְרַבֵּי יַת כִּיּוֹרָא וְיַת בְּסִיסֵיהּ וּתְקַדֵּשׁ יָתֵיהּ מְטוּל יְהוֹשֻׁעַ מְשׁוּמְשָׁנָךְ רַבָּא דְסַנְהֶדְרִין דְּעִמֵּיהּ דְּעַל יְדוֹי עֲתִידָא אַרְעָא דְיִשְרָאֵל לְאִיתְפַּלְגָא וּמְשִׁיחָא בַּר אֶפְרַיִם דְּנָפִיק מִינֵיהּ דְּעַל יְדוֹי עֲתִידִין בֵּית יִשְרָאֵל לִמְנַצְחָא לְגוֹג וּלְסִיעָתֵיהּ בְּסוֹף יוֹמַיָא
And thou shalt anoint the laver, and its base, and consecrate it, on account of Jehoshua thy minister, chief of the sanhedrin of his people; by whose hand the land of Israel is to be partitioned: and of Meshiha bar Ephraim, who shall spring from him, by whose hand the house of Israel is to vanquish Gog and his confederates at the end of the days.
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 7 words (5 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is kên (“pedestal”). Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “pedestal” (kên) shape what this verse is saying?
- Genesis 40:13 shares the word «pedestal» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- These translations render this verse differently; the difference is in the English rendering, not the original. What questions does that raise?
- The verb «וּמָשַׁחְתָּ֥» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
Things to notice
- These translations choose different wording for 9 words in this verse.
- 5 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 7 words in this verse.