What Does Exodus 39:29 Mean in the King James?
And a girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, of needlework; as the LORD commanded Moses.
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 Hebrew word for this sash’s “needlework” is also used to describe a body being “curiously wrought” in secret.
THE MEANING
The sash gathers fine linen, blue, purple, and scarlet into one embroidered band. Its pattern takes shape through deliberate craft, under the LORD’s command to Moses, whose name carries the image of being drawn out of water.
THE ROOT
מַעֲשֵׂה רֹקֵם
ma'aseh roqem
GROWS FROM
ר־ק־ם
r-q-m
To embroider or make a variegated pattern.
“needlework” in this verse is ma'aseh roqem. This word-family describes threads worked into a pattern, not simply laid beside one another. The same root describes hidden bodily formation in Psalm 139:15, joining the sash and the body in one Hebrew image of patterned making.
ALSO GROWS
riqmah: Embroidery; embroidered work.
רִקְמָה
This names the patterned work made by the craft described in the verse.
ruqqamti: I was embroidered or intricately wrought.
רֻקַּמְתִּי
Psalm 139:15 uses this form for the speaker’s hidden formation.
מֹשֶׁה
Moshe
GROWS FROM
מ־שׁ־ה
m-sh-h
To draw out.
The name carries the image of being drawn out of water, which the English name Moses does not show. The verse names Moses as the one receiving the command, and the name itself holds that nature within it.
ALSO GROWS
meshithihu: I drew him out.
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
Exodus 2:10 connects this phrase with Moses’ name and being drawn out of the water.
Moshe: Moses; associated with being drawn out.
מֹשֶׁה
The name in this verse preserves the same image of drawing out.
THE PATTERN
Distinct materials and parts take coherent form as they are skillfully worked or joined together.
And the curious girdle of the ephod, which is upon it, shall be of the same, according to the work thereof; even of gold, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.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
My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.The verse’s מַעֲשֵׂה רֹקֵם (ma’aseh roqem), “embroidered work,” shares its root with רֻקַּמְתִּי (ruqqamti), “curiously wrought,” in Psalm 139:15. The same word-family describes the sash’s patterned craft and the body’s hidden formation.
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