What Does Exodus 25:40 Mean?
And see that you make them according to their form, which was shown to you on the mountain.
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 look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.THE KEY
The Hebrew roots link “look” with “shown,” and “pattern” with “build”: making begins by seeing the form.
THE MEANING
What you make takes its shape from what has first become visible to you. The pattern leads the work, giving it form before your hands build.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that making well means inventing the form from nothing: here, the form is seen before it is made.
THE ROOT
רְאֵה
re'eh
GROWS FROM
ראה
See, look, perceive
“look / shewed” in this verse is re'eh. English separates “look” from “was shewed,” but both come from ראה (ra’ah, see or perceive). The verse holds seeing and showing in one word-family: the hands follow a form the eyes have first received.
ALSO GROWS
ro'eh: Seer; one who sees
רֹאֶה
This branch names the one who perceives, linking the act of looking to the person receiving the pattern.
mar'eh: Appearance or vision; what is seen
מַרְאֶה
The pattern is presented as something made visible, not something the maker must first invent.
תַּבְנִית
tavnit
GROWS FROM
בנה
Build, construct
תַּבְנִית (tavnit, pattern or form) grows from בנה (banah, build). The word for the shape to be followed already belongs to the language of building: what is seen becomes what is made.
ALSO GROWS
banah: Build
בָּנָה
The root names the act that follows the pattern: turning a perceived form into a built thing.
bonim: Builders
בֹּנִים
This branch names those who shape what is being built, placing the pattern within the work of the hands.
THE PATTERN
What is first seen becomes the form of what is made.
And you shall raise up the dwelling according to its fashion, which was shown you on the mountain.Then Jesus answered and said to them, Truly, truly, I say to you, The Son is not able to do anything from himself, unless he sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son likewise does.who serve in a tracing and a shadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned by God when he was about to finish the tent. For look, he says, "Make all things according to the impression shown to you on the mountain."THE THREAD
And you shall raise up the dwelling according to its fashion, which was shown you on the mountain.The verse repeats the seeing-root ראה (ra’ah, see or perceive) in “look” and “shown,” alongside תַּבְנִית (tavnit, pattern or form), from בנה (banah, build). The same link now shapes the whole structure: what is first seen gives the work its form.
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