What Does Exodus 36:26 Mean in the King James?
And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
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 holy dwelling is anchored board by board, each resting on two silver supports beneath it.
THE MEANING
The dwelling stands through supports beneath its visible frame. Each board rests on two silver sockets, distributing its support across the structure. What rises into view depends on what holds it below.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The visible boards are enough to hold the dwelling; the verse shows that each one rests on supports beneath it.
THE ROOT
כֶּסֶף
kesef
GROWS FROM
כ־ס־ף
k-s-p
The same consonants form the word for silver and a verb meaning to long for or yearn.
The verse names silver as the support beneath each board, while the same consonants also form a verb for yearning. In Psalm 84:2, that yearning reaches toward the LORD’s courts, so the base beneath the dwelling and longing for the dwelling share a root-sound.
ALSO GROWS
kesef: Silver; money
כֶּסֶף
This is the material of the sockets that support the boards.
kasaph: To long for; to yearn
כָּסַף
The same root appears in Psalm 84:2, where the soul longs for the LORD’s courts.
THE PATTERN
A structure’s visible strength depends on the support laid beneath it.
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.THE THREAD
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.Here the sockets are כֶּסֶף (kesef), silver; “longeth” translates נִכְסְפָה (nikhsafah), from the same root כ־ס־ף (k-s-p), “to long for.” The language ties the silver beneath the dwelling to a longing for the LORD’s courts.
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