What Does Exodus 38:27 Mean in the King James?
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
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 sanctuary depends on what is mostly unseen: one hundred silver sockets, each carrying a measured share of its foundation.
THE MEANING
One hundred talents of silver become one hundred sockets, one talent for each. The set-apart sanctuary and its veil are carried by these supports beneath the visible structure, making the hidden base part of the sacred design.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The supports beneath a sacred space are incidental; only what stands above them matters.
THE ROOT
מִקְדָּשׁ
miqdash
GROWS FROM
קדש
קדש (q-d-sh) means to set apart; מִקְדָּשׁ (miqdash) is a sanctuary, a set-apart place.
The Hebrew name identifies the sanctuary as a space marked apart, not merely an enclosure. Here, that set-apart space rests on silver supports hidden beneath its frame.
ALSO GROWS
qodesh: set-apartness; a sacred thing or place
קֹדֶשׁ
This noun keeps the root’s core sense visible: the sanctuary is a set-apart space.
qadosh: set apart
קָדוֹשׁ
The same root describes what is marked distinct, linking the sanctuary’s name to its character.
THE PATTERN
What is set apart stands through supports laid beneath the visible structure.
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;THE THREAD
And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.Both verses use אדן (eden, socket or base) for the silver supports beneath the sanctuary. Exodus 38 counts their full weight; Exodus 26 shows how those bases hold the boards.
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