What Does Exodus 38:30 Mean in the King James?

And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,

Exodus 38:30 · 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 same bronze makes both the entrance’s sockets and the altar: access to meeting and sacrifice belong to one structure.

THE MEANING

The place of meeting takes shape in things given form: a supported opening, an altar, a grate, and its vessels. Passage into the tent and the place of offering sit together in one built arrangement.

THE ROOT

פֶּתַח

petach

GROWS FROM

פתח

To open.

The word names the opening itself, not only a door panel. Its sockets give the passage into meeting a physical frame.

ALSO GROWS

patach: To open.

פָּתַח

The verb behind the opening shows that the entrance is a passage made accessible.

petach: An opening or doorway.

פֶּתַח

This noun names the passage whose sockets are made from the bronze.

מִזְבֵּחַ

mizbeach

GROWS FROM

זבח

To slaughter for sacrifice.

The altar’s name carries the action associated with it: sacrifice. Beside the doorway, it makes the tent’s arrangement include both entry and offering.

ALSO GROWS

zabach: To slaughter or sacrifice.

זָבַח

The verb names the action for which the altar is made.

zevach: A sacrifice or sacrificial offering.

זֶבַח

This noun connects the altar’s physical form to the offering brought there.

מוֹעֵד

mo'ed

GROWS FROM

יעד

To appoint or designate.

The tent is named for an appointed meeting, not just for shelter. The doorway’s opening is therefore part of a place set for encounter.

ALSO GROWS

ya'ad: To appoint or designate.

יָעַד

The verb carries the sense of setting a time or place for meeting.

mo'ed: An appointed time or place; a meeting.

מוֹעֵד

The tent’s name presents the space as one appointed for encounter.

THE PATTERN

Encounter takes tangible form in spaces arranged to hold both approach and offering.

And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

Exodus 25:8 · KJVThe sanctuary gives meeting a material place among the people.

And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

Exodus 27:1 · KJVThe altar is shaped as a concrete part of the space where offering takes place.

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.

1 Peter 2:5 · KJVThe image joins a built dwelling with the offering made within it.

THE THREAD

And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass, of the lookingglasses of the women assembling, which assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Exodus 38:8 · KJV

The same Hebrew word for “door,” ⁨פֶּתַח⁩ (petach), appears here for the entrance where the women assemble. The bronze mirrors become part of the meeting place’s furnishings, linking gathered people, the opening, and the materials that shape the sanctuary.

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