What Does Exodus 36:31 Mean?
And he made bolts of acacia wood; five for the frames of the one side of the dwelling.
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 bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,THE KEY
The bars turn separate boards into one dwelling.
THE MEANING
The verse shows a dwelling taking form as bars bind distinct boards into one frame. The Hebrew word rendered “tabernacle” names the structure as a dwelling, so its bars serve the purpose carried in its name.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שכן
To dwell, settle, or remain.
Mishkan comes from shakan, “to dwell,” and the same root forms shakhen, “neighbor”, one who dwells nearby. The name points to nearness: these bars bind the boards into a dwelling-place.
ALSO GROWS
shakan: To dwell or settle.
שָׁכַן
This verb supplies the action held in the name mishkan: dwelling.
shakhen: Neighbor; one who dwells nearby.
שָׁכֵן
This branch joins dwelling with nearness, illuminating the purpose of the structure.
THE PATTERN
Separate supports become a shared dwelling when crosspieces bind them into one frame.
And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.In whom the whole building, joined at the joints, grows into a set-apart temple in the Lord.You also, as living stones, are built up into a house of breath, a set-apart priesthood, to carry up sacrifices of breath, well received by God through Jesus, the Anointed One.THE THREAD
And let them make me a set-apart place, that I may pitch my tent among them.The word “dwell” here comes from the same root as mishkan, the word rendered “tabernacle” in Exodus 36:31. The bars bind the dwelling’s boards together; this verse names the nearness that dwelling serves.
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