What Does Exodus 39:18 Mean?
And the two ends of the two braided chains they fastened into the two settings, and set them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, before its face.
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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 the two ends of the two wreathen chains they fastened in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod, before it.THE KEY
The ornament is itself a path of connection: chain ends join settings, and the settings meet the ephod at its shoulders.
THE MEANING
You see an ornament whose construction is also a route of connection: the chains’ ends are fastened into two settings, which are placed on the ephod’s shoulderpieces. Each join has a precise place in the finished garment.
THE ROOT
חִבְּרוּ
chibberu
GROWS FROM
ח־ב־ר
ḥ-b-r
to join, bind together, or associate
“fastened” in this verse is chibberu. The word for fastening comes from a root that also describes association between people. The chains, settings, and shoulderpieces form one connected assembly through these joins.
ALSO GROWS
chaver: companion or associate
חָבֵר
A companion is joined to another through a relationship.
chever: company or group
חֶבֶר
A company is a whole formed from members joined together.
THE PATTERN
Separate parts become one structure when they are joined at their points of attachment.
And you shall make fifty taches of gold, and join the curtains together with the taches; and it shall be one dwelling.Jerusalem is built as a city bound together.from whom the whole body, joined together and knit by every joint that supplies, according to the working in the measure of each part, makes the growth of the body for the building up of itself in love.THE THREAD
And you shall make fifty taches of gold, and join the curtains together with the taches; and it shall be one dwelling.Exodus 26:6 uses the same root, ח־ב־ר (ḥ-b-r), for coupling the curtains together. There the joins make one tabernacle; here they connect the chains, settings, and shoulderpieces into one assembly.
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