What Does Exodus 25:35 Mean?
And a knob beneath two stalks from it, and a knob beneath two stalks from it, and a knob beneath two stalks from it, according to the six stalks that come forth from the lampstand.
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 there shall be a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.THE KEY
The word translated “proceed” means “go out”: the branches are many extensions of one source.
THE MEANING
The verse shows six branches going out from one candlestick, with a knop beneath each pair. The repeated structure holds multiplicity and unity together: every branch emerges from the same source.
THE ROOT
יֹצְאִים
yotze’im
GROWS FROM
יצא
To go out, emerge, or come forth.
“proceed” in this verse is yotze’im. The branches are described as “goings-out” from the lampstand. The same root names the going out from Mitzrayim, so this small detail echoes a larger movement from constriction into release.
ALSO GROWS
yetsi’ah: Going out; an exit.
יְצִיאָה
The branches’ “proceeding” is this same movement of emergence.
motsa: An outlet, issue, or place of origin.
מוֹצָא
The root can name both what comes out and its point of emergence, keeping the branches linked to their source.
yetsi’at Mitzrayim: The going out from Mitzrayim (Egypt).
יְצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם
The same root names the Bible’s movement out from constriction; here, the branches also go out from one center.
THE PATTERN
A single source can send out many distinct branches while they remain joined to their origin.
Three cups shaped like almonds on one stalk, with a knob and a blossom; and three cups shaped like almonds on the other stalk, with a knob and a blossom; so for the six stalks that come forth from the lampstand.For with you is the spring of life; in your light we see light.I am the vine, and you are the branches. The one who remains in me, and I in him, this one bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.THE THREAD
Three cups shaped like almonds on one stalk, with a knob and a blossom; and three cups shaped like almonds on the other stalk, with a knob and a blossom; so for the six stalks that come forth from the lampstand.The phrase “come out” uses the same root, יצא (yatsa), as “proceed” in this verse. The earlier verse shows that each outgoing branch carries a repeated form of bowls, knops, and flowers: emergence from the center has its own shape.
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