What Does Exodus 28:26 Mean in the King James?
And thou shalt make two rings of gold, and thou shalt put them upon the two ends of the breastplate in the border thereof, which is in the side of the ephod inward.
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 breastplate’s rings sit on its “lip,” turned inward toward the garment that bears it.
THE MEANING
The breastplate’s connection rests at its edge, facing inward toward the ephod that carries it. What lies over the heart is joined through a boundary point, on the side that meets its support.
THE ROOT
שָׂפָה
safah
GROWS FROM
שפה
Lip; by extension, an edge or boundary.
English “border” sounds like a dividing line, but שָׂפָה (safah, lip) also means language. Here the breastplate’s “lip” is where its rings are placed, making its boundary a point of contact, not merely an outer limit.
ALSO GROWS
safah: The lip or edge of the mouth.
שָׂפָה
The breastplate’s edge is named with the word for a lip, placing its fittings at a threshold rather than in the center.
safah: Language or speech.
שָׂפָה
The same word names what carries meaning across a boundary; here the breastplate’s edge is where its connection crosses toward the ephod.
sefat hayam: The edge or shore of the sea.
שְׂפַת הַיָּם
The same word can name a meeting line between distinct spaces, echoing how the rings join the breastplate at its edge to what lies inward.
THE PATTERN
What is meant to hold together is joined through specific connections at its edges and joints.
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.THE THREAD
And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be above the curious girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.The same Hebrew word טַבַּעֹת (tabaʿot, rings) returns in verse 28, where a blue cord binds the breastplate’s rings to the ephod’s rings. That verse reveals how the inward-facing placement becomes a joining that keeps the breastplate connected to what bears it.
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