What Does Exodus 36:23 Mean in the King James?
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
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” is a mishkan, from “to dwell,” so the counted boards give dwelling a material shape.
THE MEANING
The verse names a dwelling as a made thing with a specified side and counted boards. It keeps sacred space concrete: a structure is assembled piece by piece and oriented in a particular direction.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שׁכן
To dwell, settle, or remain.
The English “tabernacle” sounds like a thing, but mishkan comes from shakan, “to dwell, settle.” The count of boards describes dwelling taking material form; the related word for “neighbor” links dwelling with nearness.
ALSO GROWS
shakan: To dwell, settle.
שָׁכַן
This is the verb behind mishkan: the structure is named for the act of dwelling.
shakhen: Neighbor; one dwelling nearby.
שָׁכֵן
The same root connects dwelling with nearness, so a place to dwell carries the idea of being among others.
THE PATTERN
Dwelling takes form through concrete, ordered parts.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.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.Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?THE THREAD
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.The word for “dwell” comes from the same root as mishkan, “tabernacle.” This verse names the purpose of the boards: they give a dwelling place form so presence can be among the people.
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