What Does Exodus 28:34 Mean in the King James?
A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate, upon the hem of the robe round about.
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 Hebrew word for “bell” grows from the word for a beat, so the robe’s edge sounds with the wearer’s movement.
THE MEANING
The robe’s hem carries an ordered rhythm: a golden bell, then a pomegranate, repeated all the way around. As the wearer moves, the bells sound and the fruit remains visible, making the edge both audible and seen.
THE ROOT
פַּעֲמוֹן
paʿămōn
GROWS FROM
פעם
To beat or strike; also a step or occasion.
פַּעֲמוֹן (paʿămōn, “bell”) is formed from פַּעַם (paʿam, “beat” or “step”). The bell’s name carries movement inside it: the robe’s edge makes the wearer’s motion audible.
ALSO GROWS
paʿam: A beat, stroke, step, or occasion.
פַּעַם
The shared word links the bell’s sound with the wearer’s movement.
paʿămōn: A bell, an object struck to sound.
פַּעֲמוֹן
This is the robe’s audible ornament, repeated around its edge.
THE PATTERN
A garment’s border is a marked edge: it carries a sign and can become a point of contact.
And beneath upon the hem of it thou shalt make pomegranates of blue, and of purple, and of scarlet, round about the hem thereof; and bells of gold between them round about:Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue:And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.THE THREAD
And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before the LORD, and when he cometh out, that he die not.The next verse ties the garment’s sound to entering and leaving the holy place, and places that sound alongside the wearer’s survival. The bell is part of how movement at the threshold is made audible.
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