What Does Exodus 27:10 Mean in the King James?

And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

Exodus 27:10 · KJV

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THE KEY

The silver fillets are named from a root of attachment, so the verse’s hidden emphasis is on what joins the structure.

THE MEANING

The enclosure takes shape through posts that stand, bases beneath them, and silver hooks and bands that fasten its parts. The word for its bands carries the sense of attachment, locating wholeness in the joins as well as in the supports.

THE ROOT

חֲשׁוּקֵיהֶם

chashuqehem

GROWS FROM

חשק

chashaq

To cling, attach, or bind closely; also to set one’s desire upon.

The word for the fillets grows from a root that describes attachment. Elsewhere that same root speaks of setting love upon someone, joining the language of a structure’s bands to the language of personal attachment.

ALSO GROWS

chashaq: To attach oneself, cling to, or set affection upon.

חָשַׁק

This verb names the joining action carried by the fillets and also the attachment behind the root’s relational sense.

chesheq: Attachment, desire, or delight.

חֵשֶׁק

This noun shows the root’s movement from fastening to affection: both involve being closely attached.

עַמּוּדִים

ammudim

GROWS FROM

עמד

amad

To stand, remain in place, or take one’s position.

The Hebrew word for pillars grows from the verb “to stand.” English presents the posts as objects; the root also keeps their action in view: they are the parts that stand and hold their place.

ALSO GROWS

amad: To stand, remain, or take one’s position.

עָמַד

This is the action beneath the pillar’s name: the post stands in its place.

ma'amad: A standing place, position, or station.

מַעֲמָד

This related noun carries the root from the act of standing to the place where one stands.

THE PATTERN

A sacred dwelling takes shape when distinct supports and fittings are joined into one structure.

And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.

Exodus 26:32 · KJVPillars, hooks, and sockets each have a distinct role in forming the dwelling’s structure.

In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:

Ephesians 2:21 · KJVThe temple takes shape as its parts are fitted together into one growing structure.

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.

1 Peter 2:5 · KJVThe image of a dwelling extends to the reader, described as part of a house built from living stones.

THE THREAD

The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

Deuteronomy 7:7 · KJV

The phrase “set his love upon you” uses the same Hebrew root as the word for the fillets. The root links the bands that attach parts of a structure with the language of being attached in love.

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