What Does Exodus 35:14 Mean in the King James?

The candlestick also for the light, and his furniture, and his lamps, with the oil for the light,

Exodus 35:14 · 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

Light is named together with every means that gives it a place and keeps it burning.

THE MEANING

The verse presents light with its stand, implements, lamps, and oil; illumination is joined to the means that carry it. What shines is held and sustained through practical provision.

WHAT THIS UNDOES

The verse undoes the idea that light is only an abstract glow: here, it appears with a stand, lamps, and oil.

THE ROOT

הַמָּאוֹר

hamma'or

GROWS FROM

אוֹר

Light, illumination; to shine.

The verse names the lampstand and the oil in relation to ⁨הַמָּאוֹר⁩ (hamma’or, “the light”), repeating the same word for what they serve. The root ⁨אוֹר⁩ (ʾor, “light”) is surrounded by the stand, lamps, and oil that carry and sustain it.

ALSO GROWS

ʾor: Light, illumination.

אוֹר

This is the root word itself: the light the stand and oil serve.

ma'or: Luminary; a light-bearing body.

מָאוֹר

It names something that bears or gives light, echoing how the stand and lamps make light present.

ʾorah: Light, brightness.

אוֹרָה

This form keeps the same root consonants and shows light as a condition that can fill a scene.

THE PATTERN

Light becomes visible through a prepared vessel and provision that sustains it.

And thou shalt command the children of Israel, that they bring thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamp to burn always.

Exodus 27:20 · KJVOil is provided so the lamp can keep giving light.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

Psalm 119:105 · KJVA lamp makes light present along a path where it can be seen and followed.

Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

Matthew 5:15 · KJVA lamp is placed where its light can reach the people around it.

THE THREAD

And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.

Genesis 1:3 · KJV

The same Hebrew root ⁨אוֹר⁩ (ʾor, “light”) names the light spoken at creation and the light served here. Genesis speaks light into being; Exodus shows it held in a stand and supplied with oil.

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