What Does Exodus 36:31 Mean in the King James?
And he made bars of shittim wood; five for the boards of the one side 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 bars turn separate boards into one dwelling.
THE MEANING
The verse shows a dwelling taking form as bars bind distinct boards into one frame. The Hebrew word rendered “tabernacle” names the structure as a dwelling, so its bars serve the purpose carried in its name.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שכן
To dwell, settle, or remain.
“tabernacle” in this verse is mishkan. Mishkan comes from shakan, “to dwell,” and the same root forms shakhen, “neighbor”, one who dwells nearby. The name points to nearness: these bars bind the boards into a dwelling-place.
ALSO GROWS
shakan: To dwell or settle.
שָׁכַן
This verb supplies the action held in the name mishkan: dwelling.
shakhen: Neighbor; one who dwells nearby.
שָׁכֵן
This branch joins dwelling with nearness, illuminating the purpose of the structure.
THE PATTERN
Separate supports become a shared dwelling when crosspieces bind them into one frame.
And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end.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.The word “dwell” here comes from the same root as mishkan, the word rendered “tabernacle” in Exodus 36:31. The bars bind the dwelling’s boards together; this verse names the nearness that dwelling serves.
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