What Does Exodus 37:10 Mean in the King James?

And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:

Exodus 37:10 · KJV

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King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.

This verse in the Selah Decoded Version

THE KEY

The table’s name carries the motion of shalach: provision is sent forth into a place where it can be received.

THE MEANING

The verse gives sacred provision a body and proportions: the table is made from shittim wood, with length, breadth, and height. What is set before God has a prepared, tangible place. Provision reaches the reader as something embodied and made present.

THE ROOT

שֻׁלְחָן

shulḥan

GROWS FROM

שלח

To send, send forth, release, or stretch out the hand.

English “table” sounds like a fixed object; ⁨שֻׁלְחָן⁩ (shulḥan, table) carries the motion of ⁨שלח⁩ (shalach, send forth). The measured object becomes a place where provision is extended into reach and received.

ALSO GROWS

shalach: Send, send forth, release, stretch out the hand.

שָׁלַח

The table carries this root’s motion: provision is sent forth onto a surface where it can be received.

Shiloach: Sent forth; the name of a watercourse.

שִׁלֹחַ

Like the sent waters of Shiloach, the table extends provision toward the one who receives it.

THE PATTERN

Provision becomes present through a prepared place where it is set before others.

And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

Exodus 25:30 · KJVThe table is prepared as the place where bread is continually set before God.

Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Psalm 23:5 · KJVThe prepared table makes provision present even amid opposition.

Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.

1 Corinthians 10:21 · KJVThe table marks a place of shared provision and participation.

THE THREAD

And thou shalt set upon the table shewbread before me alway.

Exodus 25:30 · KJV

The same word, ⁨שֻׁלְחָן⁩ (shulḥan, table), appears where the bread is set continually before God. That purpose opens the measured table here as prepared space for provision, not merely an object with dimensions.

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