What Does Exodus 28:24 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.
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 behind “wreathen chains” also names the cords that bind Samson, revealing a working fastener inside the goldwork.
THE MEANING
What is carried close to the heart is anchored at both ends through joined strands and fixed rings. The verse makes carrying a matter of connection: the breastplate stays in place because its links are secured.
THE ROOT
עֲבֹתֹת
ʿavotot
GROWS FROM
עבת
ʿavat
Twist or interweave into a cord.
The word translated “wreathen chains” carries the sense of twisting strands into a cord. The same root names ropes used to restrain Samson, making the chain’s binding force visible beneath the goldwork.
ALSO GROWS
ʿavat: To twist, braid, or interweave.
עָבַת
The verb names the joining action contained in the twisted chains: separate strands become one fastening.
ʿavotim: Cords or ropes.
עֲבֹתִים
This form names the cords that bind Samson, showing that the word carries the practical force of a restraint as well as a fastening.
הַטַּבָּעֹת
hatabbaot
GROWS FROM
טבע
ṭavaʿ
Sink or press down into a surface.
The Hebrew word for rings shares a root with the verb for sinking or pressing down. Here, that link makes the ring a set point where the chain is fastened, rather than a free-floating loop.
ALSO GROWS
ṭabbaʿat: A ring, often a signet ring.
טַבַּעַת
The singular form names the fixed loop that receives the chain and holds its endpoint.
ṭavaʿ: To sink or drown.
טָבַע
The shared root ties the ring to a sense of being pressed or set into place, giving the fastening a tangible point of contact.
THE PATTERN
What is carried securely is held through joined strands attached to stable points.
And the other two ends of the two wreathen chains thou shalt fasten in the two ouches, and put them on the shoulderpieces of the ephod before it.And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.THE THREAD
And they spake unto him, saying, No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new cords, and brought him up from the rock.The “cords” are עֲבֹתִים (ʿavotim), from the same root as the breastplate’s “wreathen chains.” Here the cords restrain Samson; in Exodus they anchor what is carried over the heart, revealing the binding force inside the ornament.
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