What Does Exodus 36:14 Mean in the King James?

And he made curtains of goats’ hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made them.

Exodus 36:14 · 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

The tabernacle’s Hebrew name shares its root with “neighbor”: this layered tent is a dwelling shaped around nearness.

THE MEANING

You see a tent of goats’ hair placed over the tabernacle, forming shelter around a dwelling-place. Its Hebrew name shares its root with “dwell,” so the covering surrounds a place where presence settles.

THE ROOT

מִשְׁכָּן

mishkan

GROWS FROM

שׁכן

sh-k-n

To dwell, settle, or reside.

“tabernacle” in this verse is mishkan. ⁨מִשְׁכָּן⁩ (mishkan, “dwelling-place”) grows from ⁨שׁכן⁩ (sh-k-n), “to dwell.” The same root forms ⁨שָׁכֵן⁩ (shakhen, “neighbor”), joining a place of dwelling with the nearness of someone who lives beside you.

ALSO GROWS

shakhan: To dwell, settle, or reside.

שָׁכַן

This is the action the tabernacle’s name carries: a place for dwelling.

shakhen: A neighbor, someone who lives nearby.

שָׁכֵן

The shared root links dwelling with nearness, revealing a relationship inside the name of the covered place.

THE PATTERN

Scripture presents divine nearness through dwelling within, among, or beside people.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:8 · KJVThe sanctuary serves the stated purpose of dwelling among people.

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Psalm 91:1 · KJVDwelling with the Most High is expressed as shelter under the Almighty’s shadow.

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.

John 1:14 · KJVThe Greek verb ⁨σκηνόω⁩ (skēnoō, “pitch a tent” or “dwell in a tent”) describes the Word dwelling among people.

THE THREAD

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:8 · KJV

The verb ⁨שָׁכַן⁩ (shakhan, “dwell”) shares its root with ⁨מִשְׁכָּן⁩ (mishkan, “dwelling-place”). This verse makes explicit what the tabernacle’s name holds: its structure serves dwelling among the people.

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