What Does Exodus 39:16 Mean in the King James?
And they made two ouches of gold, and two gold rings; and put the two rings in the two ends of the breastplate.
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 gold is not only ornament: the settings and rings place the breastplate’s beauty exactly where it can be fastened.
THE MEANING
The verse lets you see sacred beauty as something fitted to hold in place: gold settings and rings are placed at the breastplate’s two ends. Its adornment is also a point of connection; fastening belongs to the design.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁבְּצוֹת
mishbetsot
GROWS FROM
שׁבץ
shavats
To set, inlay, or interweave.
The word translated “ouches” names settings or mounts, and its root carries the work of setting or interweaving; these pieces are made to receive and hold something. The goldwork is part of the breastplate’s construction, not loose decoration.
ALSO GROWS
shavats: To set, inlay, or interweave.
שָׁבַץ
The verb names the craft behind the setting, showing that the gold piece is shaped to hold something within it.
mishbetset: A setting or mount.
מִשְׁבֶּצֶת
This singular form names the fitted piece itself, making the “ouches” recognizable as mounts rather than generic gold ornaments.
טַבַּעֹת
tabba’ot
GROWS FROM
טבע
tava
To sink, plunge, or become embedded.
The ring-word is associated with טָבַע (tava), “to sink or be submerged,” giving the object a sense of something fitted into place. Here the rings sit at the breastplate’s ends as functional anchors, joining its crafted surface to its fastening.
ALSO GROWS
tava: To sink, plunge, or be submerged.
טָבַע
The verb’s image of sinking or becoming embedded illuminates a ring as something seated around and fitted in place.
tabba’at: A ring or signet ring.
טַבַּעַת
This singular form names the gold piece in the verse, which receives the breastplate’s fastening.
THE PATTERN
Sacred beauty is designed with joining points, so its adornment and its attachment work together.
And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.THE THREAD
And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate.The same Hebrew word for rings appears in both verses, and both place the rings at the breastplate’s ends. Here the chains enter those rings, showing how the pieces named in the current verse become points of connection.
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