What Does Exodus 39:12 Mean in the King James?
And the third row, a ligure, an agate, and an amethyst.
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
These stones are not scattered treasure: their ordered place makes them part of what is carried close to the heart.
THE MEANING
Three distinct stones occupy a defined row on the breastpiece, close to the heart. The verse shows the sacred taking visible form through careful arrangement, with each stone set within a larger whole.
THE ROOT
שְׁלִישִׁי
shlishi
GROWS FROM
שלש
Three; the count from which the ordinal third is formed.
The root fixes these stones within a counted design: this is the third row, not an isolated collection. The stone names do not yield secure, distinct root meanings here, so the verse’s clear emphasis is their place in the arrangement.
ALSO GROWS
shalosh: Three
שָׁלֹשׁ
The number beneath the ordinal makes the row part of a deliberate sequence.
shillesh: To do a third time or make threefold
שִׁלֵּשׁ
This related form carries the same sense of grouping or ordering by threes.
THE PATTERN
Scripture uses ordered precious stones to make the sacred visible and inhabitable.
And thou shalt set in it settings of stones, even four rows of stones: the first row shall be a sardius, a topaz, and a carbuncle: this shall be the first row.O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.And the foundations of the wall of the city were garnished with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald;THE THREAD
And the stones were according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names, like the engravings of a signet, every one with his name, according to the twelve tribes.The next verse reveals what the arrangement carries: each of the twelve stones bears a tribal name, engraved like a signet. This row belongs to a surface that holds a whole people close to the heart.
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