What Does Exodus 40:17 Mean?
And it was in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the dwelling was raised up.
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 it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.THE KEY
The tabernacle’s name grows from the word for dwelling, whose sibling means “neighbor”: the sacred takes shape as nearness.
THE MEANING
The dwelling rises into place at the opening of a new cycle. What is meant to be near takes a shape that stands within your life; presence becomes tangible rather than distant.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שׁכן
sh-k-n
To dwell, settle, or remain.
The word for the dwelling grows from the verb “to dwell”; a related word, שָׁכֵן (shakhen), means “neighbor,” one who lives nearby. The name holds the purpose of the structure: dwelling makes nearness concrete, a presence among you.
ALSO GROWS
shakan: To dwell or settle.
שָׁכַן
The tabernacle takes its name from the act it makes possible: dwelling among you.
shakhen: Neighbor; one who dwells nearby.
שָׁכֵן
This related word brings out the nearness held in the tabernacle’s name.
mishkan: Dwelling place; tabernacle.
מִשְׁכָּן
The structure is named for dwelling, so its purpose is woven into its name.
הוּקַם
huqam
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
To rise or stand; in a causative form, to raise or establish.
“raised up” in this verse is huqam. The Hebrew verb comes from qum, “rise, stand,” in a form meaning “was set up” or “was established.” The verse describes the dwelling being made to stand, a place for nearness takes visible form.
ALSO GROWS
qum: To rise or stand.
קוּם
The root puts standing at the center of the act described by “reared up.”
heqim: To raise up or establish.
הֵקִים
This causative form shows the movement from rising to being set firmly in place.
THE PATTERN
Presence takes shape by dwelling among people, then within them.
And let them make me a set-apart place, that I may pitch my tent among them.And the word became flesh and pitched a tent among us, and we beheld his weight, the weight as of the only-born from the Father, full of favor and truth.Have you not seen that you are God's temple, and that the breath of God dwells in you?THE THREAD
And let them make me a set-apart place, that I may pitch my tent among them.The Hebrew verb “dwell,” שָׁכַן (shakan, to dwell), is the root carried in מִשְׁכָּן (mishkan, tabernacle). Exodus 25:8 gives the purpose compressed into this verse’s name: the dwelling stands so presence can be among you.
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