What Does Exodus 39:22 Mean in the King James?
And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
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 robe’s blue and its woven form belong to one whole: the covering itself carries the mark.
THE MEANING
The verse shows a covering formed by weaving, with blue extending across the whole robe. Its identity is carried in the fabric itself, visible wherever the eye meets it.
THE ROOT
מַעֲשֵׂה אֹרֵג
maʿaseh ʾoreg
GROWS FROM
ארג
To weave, interlacing strands into cloth.
The Hebrew phrase means “work of a weaver,” naming the robe through the craft that brings it into being. English “woven work” preserves the texture but can hide how the word pictures separate strands gathered into one fabric.
ALSO GROWS
ʾārag: To weave
אָרַג
This verb names the act behind the robe’s woven construction.
ʾōreg: Weaver
אֹרֵג
This is the form used in the verse’s phrase “work of a weaver.”
THE PATTERN
What is worn can make a relationship to God visible in material form.
And thou shalt make the robe of the ephod all of blue.And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.THE THREAD
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.The same root for “weaver” appears in Job, where the KJV pictures days passing faster than a weaver’s shuttle. Here weaving gathers strands into a covering; there the weaver’s motion measures how swiftly life passes.
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