וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ אֶת הֶחָצֵ֖ר סָבִ֑יב וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ אֶת מָסַ֖ךְ שַׁ֥עַר הֶחָצֵֽר
You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
World English Bible · Public Domain
Exodus 40:8
Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) Exodus 40:8 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 set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
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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
You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall set up the courtyard around it, and set up the curtain of the gate of the courtyard.
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
You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
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Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.
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Majority Standard Bible Public Domain
Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.
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King James Version Public Domain
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
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American Standard Version (1901) Public Domain
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
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Revised Version (1885) Public Domain
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
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Geneva Bible (1599) Public Domain
Then thou shalt appoynt the courte round about, and hang vp the hanging at the courte gate.
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Douay-Rheims (1899) Public Domain
And thou shalt encompass the court with hangings, and the entry thereof.
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Young's Literal Translation Public Domain
`And thou hast set the court round about, and hast placed the covering of the gate of the court,
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Literal Standard Version CC BY-SA 4.0
And you have set the court all around, and have placed the covering of the gate of the court,
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Unlocked Literal Bible CC BY-SA 4.0
You must set up the courtyard around it, and you must hang up the curtain at the courtyard entrance.
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unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
And you shall set up the courtyard around it, and set up the curtain of the gate of the courtyard.
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Darby Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt fix the court round about, and hang up the curtain at the gate of the court.
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World Messianic Bible Public Domain
You shall set up the court around it, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
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Webster's Bible Public Domain
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court-gate.
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Free Bible Version CC BY-SA 4.0
Set up the courtyard that's around it, and put up the curtain for the courtyard entrance.
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Bible in Basic English Public Domain
And put up the hangings forming the open space all round it, with the curtain over its doorway.
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JPS Tanakh (1917) Public Domain
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the screen of the gate of the court.
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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מָסַ֖ךְ
mâçâk
H4539
“covering of”
Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- Appears 25× in the Hebrew Bible
- First appears at Exodus 26:36
- Part of Speech
- Noun
- Type
- Common
- Gender
- Masculine
- Number
- Singular
- State
- Construct
Full BDB Definition
covering, rag, screen
- covering
- screen (of the tabernacle)
- וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ sûwm H7760 “and · to put” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- הֶחָצֵ֖ר châtsêr H2691 “the · court” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- סָבִ֑יב çâbîyb H5439 “round about” Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute
- וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ nâthan H5414 “and · to give” Conjunction + Verb, Qal, Sequential Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular
- אֶת ʼêth H853 “-” Particle, Direct Object
- מָסַ֖ךְ mâçâk H4539 “covering of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- שַׁ֥עַר shaʻar H8179 “gate of” Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct
- הֶחָצֵֽר châtsêr H2691 “the · court” Particle, Definite Article + Noun, Common, Both, Singular, 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
- 7
- distinct lemmas
- Pentateuch
- section
Notable vocabulary
The rarest word here is מָסַ֖ךְ covering H4539 — appearing just 25 times in the whole Hebrew Bible.
Shared distinctive vocabulary
מָסַ֖ךְ covering H4539 occurs in 25 verses of the Hebrew Bible. Also found in:
Grammatical profile
- 2 verbs
- 5 nouns
- 2 particles
Verb forms
- וְשַׂמְתָּ֥ Qal · Sequential Perfect
- וְנָ֣תַתָּ֔ Qal · Sequential Perfect
Repetition
A word recurs within this verse — often emphatic in Hebrew:
- הֶחָצֵ֖ר court H2691 ×2
Hebrew & Septuagint length
In the original languages it is 9 Hebrew tokens and 10 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
6Topical passages linked to Exodus 40:8 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — connected by theme and wording, ordered by reader-vote popularity; previews shown in the World English Bible.
- Exodus 27:9–19 "You shall make the court of the tent: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen one hundred cubits long for one side:
- Exodus 38:9–20 He made the court: for the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, one hundred cubits;
- Exodus 40:33 He raised up the court around the tent and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.
- Matthew 16:18 I also tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my assembly, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it.
- 1 Corinthians 12:28 God has set some in the assembly: first apostles, second prophets, third teachers, then miracle workers, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, and various kinds of languages.
- Ephesians 4:11–12 He gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, shepherds and teachers;
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.
These are two independent witnesses, not word-aligned to each other, and the Septuagint is shown in lemma (dictionary) form.
καί περιτίθημι ὁ σκηνή καί πᾶς ὁ αὐτός ἁγιάζω κύκλος
No English rendering of this Greek verse — the small residue in the structurally divergent books.
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)
וּתְשַׁוֵי יָת דַרְתָּא סְחוֹר סְחוֹר וְתִתֵּן יָת פְּרָסָא דִתְרַע דַרְתָּא:
(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)
וּתְשַׁוֵּי יַת דַּרְתָּא חֲזוֹר חֲזוֹר מְטוֹל זַכְוַות אַבְהַת עַלְמָא דִמְחַזְרִין חֲזוֹר חֲזוֹר לְעַמָּא בֵּית יִשְרָאֵל וְתִתֵּן יַת פְּרָסָא דִתְרַע דָּרְתָא מְטוּל זַכְוַת אַבְהַת עַלְמָא דְפָרִיס בִּתְרַע גֵּיהִנָּם מִן בִּגְלַל דְּלָא יֵעָלוּן תַּמָּן נַפְשַׁת דַרְדְּקֵי עַמָּא דְיִשְרָאֵל
And thou shalt place the court round about, because of the merit of the fathers of the world, which encompasseth the people of the house of Israel round about. And thou shalt set the hanging of the gate of the court on account of the merit of the mothers of the world, which spreadeth at the gate of Gehennam, that none may enter there of the souls of the children of the people of Israel.
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 (7 distinct Hebrew lemmas). Its most distinctive word is mâçâk (“covering”). A historical commentator’s framing appears above. Read the whole chapter for the surrounding context.
Discussion questions
- How does “covering” (mâçâk) shape what this verse is saying?
- Exodus 26:36 shares the word «covering» with this verse. How do the two illuminate each other?
- “court” occurs 2× in this one verse. What is the effect of the repetition?
- These translations render this verse differently. What is at stake in choosing one wording over another?
- The verb «וְשַׂמְתָּ֥» is Qal Sequential Perfect. How does its form color the action?
- Reading how Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers and The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges read this verse, where do the two commentators agree and where do they part?
Things to notice
- This verse counts 9 Hebrew ↔ 10 Greek words.
- These translations choose different wording for 11 words in this verse.
- “court” occurs 2× in this single verse.
- 7 distinct Hebrew lemmas span 9 words in this verse.
Commentary
Notes on Exodus 40:8 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
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
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
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
The Pulpit Commentary
The Pulpit Commentary (1880–1919), ed. H.D.M. Spence-Jones & Joseph S. Exell — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
unfoldingWord translationNotes
Door43 World Missions Community
unfoldingWord translationNotes — © Distant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Source: git.door43.org/Door43/en_tn.