What Does Exodus 26:7 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt make curtains of goats’ hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle: eleven curtains shalt thou make.
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 pictures a tent set over a dwelling: shelter surrounds presence without becoming it.
THE MEANING
A dwelling sits beneath an outer tent made from eleven curtains of goats’ hair. The shelter is assembled from many pieces, while the dwelling remains its center.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שכן
To dwell, settle, or reside.
“Tabernacle” names a structure, while mishkan carries the root of dwelling within it. Its shelter serves a place of nearness; it is not the presence itself.
ALSO GROWS
shakan: To dwell or settle.
שָׁכַן
This verb is the seed of mishkan: the structure takes its name from the act of dwelling.
shakhen: Neighbor, one who dwells nearby.
שָׁכֵן
The same root connects dwelling with nearness to others, opening the tabernacle beyond a mere covered object.
THE PATTERN
Presence is made near through a dwelling that is sheltered or pitched among people.
And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.THE THREAD
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.The word “tabernacle” here and “dwell” there grow from the same Hebrew root, שכן. Together they reveal the shelter’s purpose: a dwelling where presence is among people.
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