What Does Exodus 39:27 Mean in the King James?
And they made coats of fine linen of woven work for Aaron, and for his sons,
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 garment is not just something they made: Hebrew uses the same root for “made” and “work,” binding the covering to the labor inside it.
THE MEANING
A calling takes shape in what is made and worn; it is not an abstraction detached from the body. The coats belong to Aaron and his sons, and the verse names the handiwork within them: fine linen shaped into a shared covering.
THE ROOT
וַיַּעֲשׂוּ
wayyaʿăśû
GROWS FROM
עשה
do, make, fashion
“made / work” in this verse is wayyaʿăśû. English separates “they made” from “work,” but both words come from עשה. The verse binds the act of making to the workmanship present in the garment.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāśāh: to do, make, or fashion
עָשָׂה
The verse uses this root in “they made” for the act that forms the coats.
maʿăśeh: work, deed, or workmanship
מַעֲשֶׂה
This noun repeats the root in “woven work,” joining the making of the coats to the craft within them.
אֹרֵג
ʾōrēg
GROWS FROM
ארג
weave
The phrase rendered “woven work” names the weave itself. The covering is specified not only by its linen, but by the craft that shapes the threads into cloth.
ALSO GROWS
ʾārag: to weave
אָרַג
This verb names the action that gives the linen its woven form.
ʾōrēg: weaver; one who weaves
אֹרֵג
This form appears in the verse’s description of the work, pointing to weaving as the craft behind the covering.
THE PATTERN
Scripture presents clothing as a made, visible covering that can mark a person’s condition or calling.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.And for Aaron’s sons thou shalt make coats, and thou shalt make for them girdles, and bonnets shalt thou make for them, for glory and for beauty.And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.THE THREAD
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.Both verses use the Hebrew root עשה for making coats: here, coats are made for Aaron and his sons; there, the LORD makes coats for Adam and his wife. The shared root links the covering to the work of making it.
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