What Does Exodus 38:27 Mean?
And from the hundred talents of silver were poured the bases of the set-apart place, and the bases of the curtain. One hundred bases from the hundred talents, a talent for a base.
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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 of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.THE KEY
The sanctuary depends on what is mostly unseen: one hundred silver sockets, each carrying a measured share of its foundation.
THE MEANING
One hundred talents of silver become one hundred sockets, one talent for each. The set-apart sanctuary and its veil are carried by these supports beneath the visible structure, making the hidden base part of the sacred design.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The supports beneath a sacred space are incidental; only what stands above them matters.
THE ROOT
מִקְדָּשׁ
miqdash
GROWS FROM
קדש
קדש (q-d-sh) means to set apart; מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash) is a sanctuary, a set-apart place.
“set-apart place” in this verse is miqdash. The Hebrew name identifies the sanctuary as a space marked apart, not merely an enclosure. Here, that set-apart space rests on silver supports hidden beneath its frame.
ALSO GROWS
qodesh: set-apartness; a sacred thing or place
קֹדֶשׁ
This noun keeps the root’s core sense visible: the sanctuary is a set-apart space.
qadosh: set apart
קָדוֹשׁ
The same root describes what is marked distinct, linking the sanctuary’s name to its character.
THE PATTERN
What is set apart stands through supports laid beneath the visible structure.
And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a weighty cornerstone, a foundation set firm. The one who leans his weight will not hurry.Having been built upon the foundation of the sent ones and the prophets, the Anointed One, Jesus, himself being the head of the corner.THE THREAD
And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons.Both verses use אדן (eden, socket or base) for the silver supports beneath the sanctuary. Exodus 38 counts their full weight; Exodus 26 shows how those bases hold the boards.
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