What Does 2 Chronicles 3:14 Mean?
And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and he worked cherubim upon it.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.THE KEY
The veil is a richly marked threshold: its cherubim recall the guardians set at the way to life.
THE MEANING
You meet a vivid boundary before the innermost place, marked with cherubim. The veil conceals what lies within while making the threshold into sacred presence visible.
THE ROOT
תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי
tola'at shani
GROWS FROM
ת־ל־ע
t-l-ʿ
Worm or grub; in this phrase, the word names scarlet dye or material.
The veil’s crimson is תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי (tola’at shani), literally “worm-scarlet.” The same Hebrew word תּוֹלַעַת (tola’at) appears in Psalm 22:6 as “worm,” so English “crimson” hides that the veil’s color and the psalm’s image share a word.
ALSO GROWS
tola'at: Worm or grub.
תּוֹלַעַת
This is the word translated “worm” in Psalm 22:6, linking the veil’s scarlet to the psalm’s image.
tola'at shani: Scarlet material or dye, literally “worm-scarlet.”
תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי
This is the phrase behind “crimson” in the verse; the color carries the worm-word within it.
THE PATTERN
Scripture marks thresholds of sacred access with boundaries that guard or reveal the way inward.
So he drove out the man, and he pitched the cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and the flaming sword that turned every way would guard the way of the tree of life.And you shall make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of cunning work; with cherubim it shall be made.A fresh and living way that he opened anew for us through the hanging curtain of his flesh;THE THREAD
But I am a worm and not a man; the scorn of humankind, despised by the people.The scarlet in the veil is תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי (tola’at shani), and Psalm 22:6 uses תּוֹלַעַת (tola’at) for “worm.” The shared Hebrew word connects the veil’s crimson to the psalm’s image, a link the KJV’s different English words conceal.
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