What Does Exodus 28:13 Mean in the King James?

And thou shalt make ouches of gold;

Exodus 28:13 · 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 gold is fashioned into a setting, giving what is precious a crafted place to be held.

THE MEANING

Preciousness is held within form: gold becomes a setting that gives the jewel a place. The structure around what shines is itself part of the craft.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

It undoes the idea that only the shining center matters; the crafted setting is part of what holds the precious thing.

THE ROOT

מִשְׁבְּצוֹת

mishbetsot

GROWS FROM

שׁבץ

shavats

To set or interweave in a patterned structure.

This root appears as “ouches” here and as “wrought gold” in Psalm 45:13, revealing the image of gold worked into a setting or patterned form. The gold is not only material that shines; it is shaped to hold what is precious.

ALSO GROWS

mishbetsot: Settings or mounts for stones.

מִשְׁבְּצוֹת

Here, the word names the crafted holders that give the stones a place.

mimishbetsot: “Wrought gold,” literally “from settings of gold.”

מִמִּשְׁבְּצוֹת

In Psalm 45:13, the same setting-work describes a garment, showing gold shaped into a patterned form.

THE PATTERN

What is precious becomes part of a whole through a fitting structure that holds it in place.

The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

Psalm 45:13 · KJVThe same root presents gold as crafted setting-work in a garment.

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 · KJVLiving stones take their place together in a structure that forms a shared house.

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

Ephesians 2:21 · KJVThe building grows as its parts are fitted together, making the structure part of the whole.

THE THREAD

With the work of an engraver in stone, like the engravings of a signet, shalt thou engrave the two stones with the names of the children of Israel: thou shalt make them to be set in ouches of gold.

Exodus 28:11 · KJV

This verse uses the same ⁨מִשְׁבְּצוֹת⁩ (mishbetsot), “settings,” and names what the gold holds: stones engraved with Israel’s names. The setting is a crafted frame that carries identity, not mere ornament.

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