What Does Exodus 25:32 Mean in the King James?
And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:
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 Hebrew calls the branches stalks that come out from the lampstand, so its many extensions begin in one source.
THE MEANING
Six stalks extend from the lampstand, three on each side. Each has its own reach, yet all emerge from the same body. The verse holds distinction and unity together in a balanced form.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that distinct parts must be independent: each branch remains distinct while emerging from one body.
THE ROOT
קָנִים
qānîm
GROWS FROM
קנה
q-n-h
Reed, cane, or stalk.
The word translated “branches” is literally canes or stalks, and the same noun can name a measuring reed. The lamp is pictured with reedlike extensions, each growing out from its central form.
ALSO GROWS
qāneh: A reed, cane, or single stalk.
קָנֶה
This is the singular form behind the six “branches,” bringing their stalklike shape into view.
qeneh hammiddah: A measuring reed or rod.
קְנֵה הַמִּדָּה
The stalk also serves as a measure in Ezekiel 40:3, showing how the same concrete form can extend outward and mark dimensions.
יֹצְאִים
yotze’im
GROWS FROM
יצא
y-ts-ʾ
To go out or come forth.
“come out” in this verse is yotze’im. The branches are described as “going out” from the lampstand’s sides, a verb that keeps their emergence tied to their source. The same word family can name both a departure and an outlet, so the image carries the sense of a visible going-forth.
ALSO GROWS
yetsi’ah: A going out or departure.
יְצִיאָה
This noun preserves the movement expressed by the branches as they go out from the sides.
motsa: An outlet, source, or point of emergence.
מוֹצָא
This related form makes the lampstand’s sides legible as the place from which the branches issue.
THE PATTERN
Many distinct extensions can come from one source and remain part of one whole.
Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.THE THREAD
Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it shall be one beaten work of pure gold.This verse makes explicit what the six stalks emerging from the sides already suggest: the branches belong to the same work as the lampstand. Their number and separate shape do not make them separate pieces.
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