What Does 2 Chronicles 3:14 Mean in the King James?

And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.

2 Chronicles 3:14 · KJV

The analysis reads the King James wording.

King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

THE KEY

The veil is a richly marked threshold: its cherubim recall the guardians set at the way to life.

THE MEANING

You meet a vivid boundary before the innermost place, marked with cherubim. The veil conceals what lies within while making the threshold into sacred presence visible.

THE ROOT

תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי

tola'at shani

GROWS FROM

ת־ל־ע

t-l-ʿ

Worm or grub; in this phrase, the word names scarlet dye or material.

The veil’s crimson is ⁨תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי⁩ (tola’at shani), literally “worm-scarlet.” The same Hebrew word ⁨תּוֹלַעַת⁩ (tola’at) appears in Psalm 22:6 as “worm,” so English “crimson” hides that the veil’s color and the psalm’s image share a word.

ALSO GROWS

tola'at: Worm or grub.

תּוֹלַעַת

This is the word translated “worm” in Psalm 22:6, linking the veil’s scarlet to the psalm’s image.

tola'at shani: Scarlet material or dye, literally “worm-scarlet.”

תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי

This is the phrase behind “crimson” in the verse; the color carries the worm-word within it.

THE PATTERN

Scripture marks thresholds of sacred access with boundaries that guard or reveal the way inward.

So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

Genesis 3:24 · KJVCherubim stand at the guarded way to the tree of life, marking a boundary to sacred access.

And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:

Exodus 26:31 · KJVThe veil is a textile threshold marked with cherubim, as in the verse under study.

By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

Hebrews 10:20 · KJVThe veil remains a threshold, and the verse names a way through it.

THE THREAD

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

Psalm 22:6 · KJV

The scarlet in the veil is ⁨תּוֹלַעַת שָׁנִי⁩ (tola’at shani), and Psalm 22:6 uses ⁨תּוֹלַעַת⁩ (tola’at) for “worm.” The shared Hebrew word connects the veil’s crimson to the psalm’s image, a link the KJV’s different English words conceal.

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