What Does Exodus 26:15 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
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 tabernacle’s name means “dwelling,” and its boards are literally “standing”, the dwelling takes form as what stands.
THE MEANING
The dwelling takes shape through boards of shittim wood standing upright. Its form is concrete: it is made from pieces set to stand.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שׁכן
sh-k-n
To dwell, settle, or remain.
The word translated “tabernacle” is a dwelling place, from the same root as the verb “dwell.” The verse names the structure by what happens there: dwelling takes shape in a place made to stand.
ALSO GROWS
shakan: To dwell or settle.
שָׁכַן
This verb shares the seed of “tabernacle” and reveals the structure’s purpose within its name.
shakhen: A neighbor or resident.
שָׁכֵן
A resident is one who dwells nearby; this branch carries the root from a dwelling place to the one who inhabits it.
עֹמְדִים
ʿomdim
GROWS FROM
עמד
ʿ-m-d
To stand or take one’s position.
“standing up” in this verse is ʿomdim. The boards are described with a word from the root “stand.” A related word means “pillar,” so the root connects the boards’ posture with the kind of support that makes a structure stand.
ALSO GROWS
ʿamad: To stand or take one’s stand.
עָמַד
This is the verb behind “standing up,” making the boards’ upright position explicit in Hebrew.
ʿammud: A pillar or column.
עַמּוּד
This related word names an upright support, echoing how the boards stand as part of the dwelling’s frame.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling becomes visible through distinct parts set into a structure that stands.
And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.A Song of degrees for Solomon. Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.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.THE THREAD
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.“Tabernacle” here is מִשְׁכָּן (mishkan, dwelling place), from שׁכן (sh-k-n, to dwell); Exodus 25:8 uses that same root in “that I may dwell among them.” The structure is named for the dwelling it makes possible.
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