What Does Exodus 25:40 Mean in the King James?
And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
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 roots link “look” with “shown,” and “pattern” with “build”: making begins by seeing the form.
THE MEANING
What you make takes its shape from what has first become visible to you. The pattern leads the work, giving it form before your hands build.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the belief that making well means inventing the form from nothing: here, the form is seen before it is made.
THE ROOT
רְאֵה
re'eh
GROWS FROM
ראה
See, look, perceive
“look / shewed” in this verse is re'eh. English separates “look” from “was shewed,” but both come from ראה (ra’ah, see or perceive). The verse holds seeing and showing in one word-family: the hands follow a form the eyes have first received.
ALSO GROWS
ro'eh: Seer; one who sees
רֹאֶה
This branch names the one who perceives, linking the act of looking to the person receiving the pattern.
mar'eh: Appearance or vision; what is seen
מַרְאֶה
The pattern is presented as something made visible, not something the maker must first invent.
תַּבְנִית
tavnit
GROWS FROM
בנה
Build, construct
תַּבְנִית (tavnit, pattern or form) grows from בנה (banah, build). The word for the shape to be followed already belongs to the language of building: what is seen becomes what is made.
ALSO GROWS
banah: Build
בָּנָה
The root names the act that follows the pattern: turning a perceived form into a built thing.
bonim: Builders
בֹּנִים
This branch names those who shape what is being built, placing the pattern within the work of the hands.
THE PATTERN
What is first seen becomes the form of what is made.
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.THE THREAD
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.The verse repeats the seeing-root ראה (ra’ah, see or perceive) in “look” and “shown,” alongside תַּבְנִית (tavnit, pattern or form), from בנה (banah, build). The same link now shapes the whole structure: what is first seen gives the work its form.
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