What Does Exodus 37:20 Mean in the King James?
And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
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 almond-shaped bowls make the lampstand’s light carry the language of watchfulness and flowering life.
THE MEANING
The lampstand’s bowls take the shape of almonds among its buds and flowers. The Hebrew word-link between almond and watching holds wakefulness and flowering together in the image of its light.
THE ROOT
מְשֻׁקָּדִים
meshukkadim
GROWS FROM
שקד
To watch or remain alert; the related noun shaqed means almond.
The word translated “made like almonds” comes from שקד, the same consonants in shaqed (almond) and shaqad (to watch). Jeremiah places the almond tree beside the LORD’s declaration that he is watching over his word, so the lampstand’s flowering form carries an echo of watchfulness within its light.
ALSO GROWS
shaqed: Almond or almond tree.
שָׁקֵד
The bowls are shaped like almonds, making this word’s image part of the lampstand’s form.
shoqed: Watching, keeping watch.
שֹׁקֵד
In Jeremiah 1:12, this form shares the root with “almond” in the preceding verse, joining the almond image to watchfulness.
THE PATTERN
Scripture uses the almond’s shape and name to link watchfulness with life visibly coming into bloom.
Three bowls made like unto almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, with a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.And it came to pass, that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness; and, behold, the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed blossoms, and yielded almonds.Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.THE THREAD
Then said the LORD unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I will hasten my word to perform it.The Hebrew repeats שקד: the almond in verse 11 is shaqed, and verse 12 uses shoqed, “watching,” rendered “hasten” in the KJV. That shared root gives the almond form here an echo of watchfulness that the English alone does not reveal.
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