What Does Exodus 27:8 Mean in the King James?
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
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 verse specifies the altar’s hollow form as part of its design, shaped by a pattern first shown.
THE MEANING
You meet a design in which the hollow construction is deliberate, not an unfilled accident. What is made takes its shape from a pattern first shown, and the inner form belongs to the design as much as its visible boards.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
A hollow form is unfinished or deficient; here its hollowness is explicitly part of the intended design.
THE ROOT
נְבוּב
nevuḇ
GROWS FROM
נבב
n-b-b
to be hollow; to hollow out
The Hebrew names a hollowed form as a deliberate feature of the construction. The verse specifies that form alongside the pattern shown for its making, so the hollow is part of the design.
ALSO GROWS
navav: to be hollow or hollow out
נָבַב
The verb names the shaping that gives the altar its hollow form.
nevuḇ: hollow; hollowed
נְבוּב
This form describes the altar’s construction as a specified feature.
הֶרְאָה
herʾah
GROWS FROM
ראה
r-ʾ-h
to see; in this form, to show or make visible
The form translated “showed” comes from the verb “to see”: the pattern is made visible before the making begins. The verse binds seeing and doing together, with the finished form answering to what is seen.
ALSO GROWS
raʾah: to see; perceive
רָאָה
The root begins with seeing, the perception behind the shown pattern.
marʾeh: appearance; vision
מַרְאֶה
This branch names what is seen, linking the visible pattern to the form being made.
THE PATTERN
Faithful making gives visible form to a pattern that is first shown.
Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.THE THREAD
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.Hebrews calls the pattern shown on the mountain an example and shadow of heavenly things. This places the altar within a sanctuary whose made forms take their shape from what is shown.
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