What Does Exodus 26:16 Mean in the King James?
Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
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 word for “breadth” comes from the root of becoming spacious: the sanctuary’s room takes shape one measured piece at a time.
THE MEANING
This verse gives each board a defined length and breadth, showing how a dwelling takes shape through pieces given their measure. Its word for breadth belongs to the root of becoming spacious, so room here is both bounded and made.
THE ROOT
רֹחַב
roḥav
GROWS FROM
רחב
r-ḥ-b
to become broad or spacious
The noun for breadth grows from the verb for becoming wide. Here that spaciousness has an exact measure: room is shaped into a dwelling through its separate parts.
ALSO GROWS
raḥav: to become wide or spacious
רָחַב
The verb reveals the widening held within the board’s measured breadth.
merḥav: a broad or open place
מֶרְחָב
This noun uses the same root for spaciousness, linking the board’s width to the Bible’s language of being brought into a wide place.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling for presence takes shape as distinct parts receive their measure and are fitted into a whole.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:THE THREAD
I called upon the LORD in distress: the LORD answered me, and set me in a large place.“Large place” translates מֶרְחָב (merḥav), meaning a broad or open place, from the same root רחב (r-ḥ-b), meaning to become spacious, as the board’s “breadth.” The measured board and the large place share the language of room made within bounds.
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