What Does Exodus 39:22 Mean?
And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
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 the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.THE KEY
The robe’s blue and its woven form belong to one whole: the covering itself carries the mark.
THE MEANING
The verse shows a covering formed by weaving, with blue extending across the whole robe. Its identity is carried in the fabric itself, visible wherever the eye meets it.
THE ROOT
מַעֲשֵׂה אֹרֵג
maʿaseh ʾoreg
GROWS FROM
ארג
To weave, interlacing strands into cloth.
The Hebrew phrase means “work of a weaver,” naming the robe through the craft that brings it into being. English “woven work” preserves the texture but can hide how the word pictures separate strands gathered into one fabric.
ALSO GROWS
ʾārag: To weave
אָרַג
This verb names the act behind the robe’s woven construction.
ʾōreg: Weaver
אֹרֵג
This is the form used in the verse’s phrase “work of a weaver.”
THE PATTERN
What is worn can make a relationship to God visible in material form.
And you will make the robe of the ephod wholly of blue.And it shall be to you for a tassel, that you may see it, and remember all the commands of the LORD, and do them, and that you not scout after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you go whoring.For as many of you as have been immersed into the Anointed One have put on the Anointed One.THE THREAD
My days are lighter than a weaver's shuttle, and run out at the end of the cord.The same root for “weaver” appears in Job, where the KJV pictures days passing faster than a weaver’s shuttle. Here weaving gathers strands into a covering; there the weaver’s motion measures how swiftly life passes.
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