What Does Exodus 25:7 Mean in the King James?
Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the ephod, and in the breastplate.
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 stones are called “fillings”: their purpose is to fill a setting and become part of a larger whole.
THE MEANING
These precious stones have a place in the ephod and breastplate; they are meant to be fitted into something that carries them. Their value is expressed through their place in the whole, not only in their beauty.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that what is precious matters only when kept apart: these stones are meant to be set into something that carries them.
THE ROOT
מִלֻּאִים
millu'im
GROWS FROM
מלא
m-l-ʾ
מלא (male) means to be full; in its causative forms, to fill.
“stones to be set” in this verse is millu'im. The Hebrew names these as “stones of fillings,” linking their setting to the language of filling and fullness. They are not just precious objects beside the garment: they fill its designated places and become part of its structure.
ALSO GROWS
male: full; to be full
מָלֵא
This basic form shows the fullness carried by the word for the stones’ settings.
millu'im: fillings or settings; also used for ordination
מִלּוּאִים
The verse’s word for the set stones joins their placement to the idea of filling a designated space.
THE PATTERN
A stone takes its place in a larger whole, where its placement gives it meaning.
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; The fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.THE THREAD
And the stones shall be with the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet; every one with his name shall they be according to the twelve tribes.The next instruction reveals what the stones carry: the names of Israel’s tribes, engraved one by one. The settings are places for named people to be held within the garment’s design.
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