What Does Exodus 35:10 Mean?
And every wise-hearted one among you shall come and make all that the LORD has commanded.
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 every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the LORD hath commanded;THE KEY
In this verse, wisdom is not just understood in the heart; it takes shape in what the hands make.
THE MEANING
Among you, the wise heart comes forward and gives understanding a form. The verse holds inner discernment and outward making together: what the heart knows becomes work.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that wisdom ends in understanding alone: here, the wise heart is the one that comes and makes.
THE ROOT
חֲכַם־לֵב
ḥakham-lev
GROWS FROM
חכם
To be wise or skillful.
“wise-hearted” in this verse is ḥakham-lev. The phrase joins wisdom to the heart, the inward center of understanding and choice. Its wisdom is not abstract: it becomes visible as skillful making.
ALSO GROWS
ḥākām: A wise or skillful person.
חָכָם
The same root names the person whose inner capacity is expressed in the work.
ḥokhmāh: Wisdom or skill.
חָכְמָה
The root holds discernment and practical ability together, linking a wise heart to what it can make.
עָשָׂה
ʿasah
GROWS FROM
עשה
To do, make, or perform.
“make” in this verse is ʿasah. This verb can mean both doing and making, so the command becomes concrete work. The wise heart’s capacity is expressed in something done.
ALSO GROWS
maʿaseh: An act, deed, or work.
מַעֲשֶׂה
The branch names the tangible result that makes inward wisdom visible.
ʿoseh: A person who performs or makes something.
עֹשֶׂה
The word gives action an agent: wisdom moves through a person into what is made.
THE PATTERN
Wisdom becomes visible when inner understanding takes form in work.
And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the staff of Dan. And in the heart of all the wise of heart I have set wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you.Every wise woman builds her house, but folly tears it down with her hands.Who among you is wise and knowing? Let him show his works from a good walk, in the tamed gentleness of wisdom.THE THREAD
And I, behold, I have given with him Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the staff of Dan. And in the heart of all the wise of heart I have set wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you.The same phrase, “wise hearted,” appears here, and this verse opens its source: wisdom is placed within the heart so that work can be made. Exodus 35:10 shows that wisdom moving into action as the wise heart comes and makes.
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