What Does Exodus 37:26 Mean in the King James?
And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
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 altar’s horns share their Hebrew root with rays of light, making its outward points part of the same image of radiance.
THE MEANING
The gold reaches the altar’s top, every side, and even its projecting horns, while a gold crown circles it. The covering takes in every face and edge; nothing sits outside the design.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It undoes the idea that what is set apart can be complete while its edges and outward points remain exposed.
THE ROOT
קַרְנֹתָיו
qarnotav
GROWS FROM
קרן
q-r-n
To project like a horn; the same root also names rays and the shining they send out.
The Hebrew seed links the altar’s horns with rays of light. Its outward points carry a word also used for radiance, so their gold covering belongs to the altar’s image of projection and brightness.
ALSO GROWS
qeren: A horn; also a projecting point or ray of light.
קֶרֶן
This is the noun behind the altar’s horns, the projecting points included in its gold covering.
qaran: To shine or send out rays.
קָרַן
The verb is used for Moses’s face sending out rays in Exodus 34:29, linking the horn’s projection with radiance.
סָבִיב
saviv
GROWS FROM
סבב
s-b-b
To turn or move around; hence, to surround.
“round about” in this verse is saviv. The verse uses saviv twice: for the sides and for the crown. The root names both circling motion and the boundary made by circling, so the gold forms a complete circuit around the altar.
ALSO GROWS
sabab: To turn, go around, or surround.
סָבַב
The verb names the motion that makes the boundary expressed by both instances of round about.
sevivah: The surrounding area or surroundings.
סְבִיבָה
This related form names the space around something, extending the root’s sense from circling to what the circle encloses.
THE PATTERN
Wholeness reaches every face and projecting point, then closes its boundary all around.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;THE THREAD
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.The ark’s crown circles it round about, using the same Hebrew root סבב (s-b-b) heard in Exodus 37:26. The shared root makes the border part of the object’s completeness, enclosing it rather than merely decorating its top.
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