What Does Exodus 39:25 Mean?
And they made bells of clean gold, and set the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about, between the pomegranates.
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 they made bells of pure gold, and put the bells between the pomegranates upon the hem of the robe, round about between the pomegranates;THE KEY
The Hebrew word for “bells” carries the sense of a beat or step, so the robe’s edge makes movement audible.
THE MEANING
The sacred edge carries both shape and sound: pomegranates mark it visually, while gold bells answer movement with a pulse. What is set apart becomes perceptible in the way it moves through the world.
THE ROOT
פַּעֲמֹן
pa'amon
GROWS FROM
פעמ
p-ʿ-m
To beat or strike; related words also carry the senses of a step or an occasion.
English gives you a small gold object; the Hebrew word carries a beat within it. Because the bells are placed around the robe’s hem, its movement becomes audible.
ALSO GROWS
pa'am: A beat, step, or occasion.
פַּעַם
The bell’s name shares the language of a step, linking its sound to the wearer’s movement.
pe'amim: Times or occasions; in some contexts, steps.
פְּעָמִים
The repeated bells around the hem give the robe’s movement a recurring rhythm.
THE PATTERN
The edge of what is set apart becomes perceptible through sound, inscription, or touch.
A gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.In that day there is upon the bells of the horses, SET APART TO THE LORD; and the pots in the house of the LORD are like the sprinkling bowls before the altar.And look, a woman who had been flowing with blood for twelve years came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment.THE THREAD
A gold bell and a pomegranate, a gold bell and a pomegranate, around the hem of the robe.This verse gives the garment design that Exodus 39:25 carries out: bell and pomegranate repeat around the same hem. The bells are part of the robe’s structure, making its movement sound.
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