What Does Exodus 36:15 Mean in the King James?
The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.
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
Unity begins in a measure shared by separate pieces.
THE MEANING
Each curtain has a defined length and breadth, and all eleven share one measure. The sacred covering takes shape through repeated proportion across separate pieces. Each curtain keeps its own dimensions while belonging to one set.
THE ROOT
מִדָּה
middah
GROWS FROM
מדד
To measure or measure off.
“size” in this verse is middah. The Hebrew phrase מִדָּה אַחַת (middah achat, “one measure”) makes the shared proportion explicit. The common dimension is designed sameness, not an accidental resemblance.
ALSO GROWS
madad: To measure.
מָדַד
The verb names the act behind the shared dimensions assigned to every curtain.
middah: Measure, size, or dimension.
מִדָּה
This noun names the common measure that holds the eleven curtains to one proportion.
רֹחַב
roḥav
GROWS FROM
רחב
To be wide or spacious.
English presents breadth as a technical dimension; Hebrew keeps it in a word family that also names widening and open space. The measured width carries that spatial resonance without ceasing to be a literal measurement.
ALSO GROWS
raḥav: Wide or broad.
רָחָב
It names the quality measured by the curtain’s breadth.
merḥav: A broad or open place.
מֶרְחָב
This related word extends the same root from a measured width to spacious room.
THE PATTERN
Separate pieces can share one pattern and become one coherent dwelling.
And thou shalt make fifty taches of gold, and couple the curtains together with the taches: and it shall be one tabernacle.For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:THE THREAD
He brought me forth also into a large place; he delivered me, because he delighted in me.“Large place” translates מֶרְחָב (merḥav), from the same רחב root as the curtain’s “breadth.” Exodus gives that root a measured dimension; the psalm uses it for spacious room.
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