What Does Exodus 38:17 Mean in the King James?
And the sockets for the pillars were of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver; and the overlaying of their chapiters of silver; and all the pillars of the court were filleted with silver.
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 word rendered “filleted” comes from a root that also means to cling or set affection upon, so the silver marks the court by what binds its pillars together.
THE MEANING
The court is a boundary held together by the connections among its supports: the posts stand, and silver bands join them into one enclosure. Silver repeats at the hooks, bands, and capitals, making the joining visible throughout.
THE ROOT
מְחֻשָּׁקִים
mechushakim
GROWS FROM
חשק
To attach, bind, or cling; also to desire or set affection upon.
“filleted” in this verse is mechushakim. The Hebrew form comes from חשק, a root that can describe both physical attachment and setting desire upon someone. The court’s finish is also its fastening: its boundary is pictured as something made coherent through attachment.
ALSO GROWS
chashuqim: Bands or fillets; things joined around the pillars.
חֲשֻׁקִים
This related form names the physical bands that connect the court’s pillars.
chashaq: To cling to, desire, or set affection upon.
חָשַׁק
Deuteronomy 7:7 uses this verb for the LORD setting love upon Israel, showing the same root’s range from fastening to affection.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling becomes a whole when its separate supports are joined into one structure.
And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.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
The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:“Set his love” translates חָשַׁק (chashaq), the same root found in the court’s fillets. One passage uses it for bands joining pillars; the other for an attachment of love, holding fastening and affection within one word-family.
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