What Does Exodus 27:15 Mean in the King James?

And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.

Exodus 27:15 · KJV

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 word translated “pillars” comes from “stand,” so the boundary is what stands to hold what hangs.

THE MEANING

The boundary has a measure: fifteen cubits of hanging carried by three pillars on three sockets. The visible curtain depends on what stands beneath it; the enclosure holds through the relation of surface, support, and base.

THE ROOT

עַמֻּדֵיהֶם

ʿammûdêhem

GROWS FROM

עמד

Stand, remain in place.

“pillars” in this verse is ʿammûdêhem. The noun grows from ⁨עָמַד⁩ (ʿāmad), meaning “stand”: a pillar is named by the act it performs. Beside the hangings, the word gathers standing into the architecture itself, the enclosure’s edge is held by what stands.

ALSO GROWS

ʿāmad: Stand, remain.

עָמַד

This verb names the action embedded in the word for “pillars.”

ʿōmədîm: Standing.

עֹמְדִים

In Exodus 26:15, the boards are described as standing, showing the same root shaping the structure’s upright parts.

ʿammûd: Pillar, column.

עַמּוּד

This noun names the upright support that carries the hanging boundary in the verse.

THE PATTERN

A dwelling’s boundary takes shape through measured parts held upright in relation.

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

Exodus 26:15 · KJVThe boards are designated to stand, making the structure’s upright support explicit.

And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

1 Kings 6:7 · KJVPrepared stones enter the house in measured relation, forming its structure without being reshaped at the site.

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

Ephesians 2:21 · KJVThe building becomes a whole as its parts are framed together.

THE THREAD

And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

Exodus 26:15 · KJV

The word “standing” comes from ⁨עמד⁩ (ʿāmad), the same root that forms “pillars” in Exodus 27:15. Both verses describe the enclosure through what stands upright to hold its shape.

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