What Does Exodus 36:22 Mean in the King James?
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
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 structure called “tabernacle” is, in Hebrew, a dwelling, and these joined boards are that dwelling taking form.
THE MEANING
Each board carries two tenons matched with the next, and the same pattern runs through all the boards. A dwelling takes shape as these separate parts meet in a shared frame.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שכן
sh-k-n
To settle, dwell, or remain.
The Hebrew word for tabernacle, mishkan, comes from shakan, meaning to dwell. The boards are not merely around a dwelling; their fitted form is how the dwelling takes shape.
ALSO GROWS
shākan: To dwell or settle.
שָׁכַן
This verb names the purpose carried in the structure’s name.
shokhen: One who dwells or settles.
שׁוֹכֵן
The same root links the dwelling with the one who inhabits it.
mishkan: Dwelling place; tabernacle.
מִשְׁכָּן
The building’s Hebrew name grows from the act of dwelling.
מְשֻׁלָּבֹת
meshullavot
GROWS FROM
שלב
sh-l-b
To interlock or fit together.
“equally distant” in this verse is meshullavot. The spacing is matched, and the Hebrew word also carries the sense of being interlocked: these tenons are arranged to meet. Their repeated fit turns separate boards into one frame.
ALSO GROWS
shalav: To interlock or join.
שָׁלַב
The verb names the joining action carried by the board’s projections.
meshullav: Fitted or interlocked.
מְשֻׁלָּב
This form describes parts joined into a shared arrangement.
shiluv: Joining or integration.
שִׁלּוּב
The same word family keeps the image of distinct parts brought into one fit.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling takes shape through repeated parts whose joints are made to meet.
Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.THE THREAD
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.Mishkan (מִשְׁכָּן), meaning “dwelling place,” comes from shakan (שָׁכַן), meaning “to dwell”; Exodus 25:8 uses that verb when it says, “that I may dwell among them.” The fitted boards here belong to the very meaning of the structure: this is a dwelling being formed.
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