What Does Exodus 27:9 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen of an hundred cubits long for one side:
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 sanctuary’s boundary is woven from joined strands: sacred space takes shape through a measured edge.
THE MEANING
The dwelling place has a deliberate, measured court, with a hundred cubits of twisted linen along its southern side. Its boundary joins many strands into one continuous hanging, giving the space a visible shape.
THE ROOT
מָשְׁזָר
mashzar
GROWS FROM
שזר
shazar
To twist or ply strands together.
“twined” in this verse is mashzar. The fabric is not merely linen with a decorative finish: its name carries the act of strands being twisted together. The court’s edge is made from joined filaments, many becoming one continuous hanging.
ALSO GROWS
mashzar: Twisted or plied; used of fine linen.
מָשְׁזָר
This is the word describing the linen that forms the court’s boundary.
shezirah: Twisting or plying fibers into thread.
שְׁזִירָה
It names the joining process carried within the description of the linen.
THE PATTERN
Sacred dwelling takes visible form through measured spaces and materials joined together.
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.THE THREAD
Moreover thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubims of cunning work shalt thou make them.Exodus 26:1 uses מָשְׁזָר (mashzar), meaning “twined,” for the tabernacle curtains. Here that material forms the court’s perimeter; there it forms the tent’s covering, and the shared word binds the two parts of the dwelling together.
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