What Does Exodus 39:7 Mean in the King James?
And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; 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
This memorial is carried on shoulders: remembrance becomes the weight someone bears for a whole people.
THE MEANING
You meet remembrance here as something visible and borne: names are set in stones on shoulders as a memorial for a people. Belonging is carried into worship, not left to each person to preserve alone.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie that remembrance is only private thought dissolves: these names are made visible and borne together.
THE ROOT
זִכָּרוֹן
zikkārōn
GROWS FROM
זכר
z-k-r
Remember, recall, bring to mind.
The Hebrew word zikkārōn grows from the root זכר, which carries both the act of remembering and the remembrance that keeps something present. This memorial is more than a marker: it summons the names of a whole people into view.
ALSO GROWS
zākar: To remember, recall, or call to mind.
זָכַר
This verb shows remembrance as an active holding of the names in attention.
hizkîr: To cause to remember, or to mention.
הִזְכִּיר
This branch illuminates how a visible memorial can stir remembrance beyond the person who carries it.
THE PATTERN
Visible signs carry shared memory forward, keeping a people’s identity present across generations.
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and gave unto them, saying, This is my body which is given for you: this do in remembrance of me.THE THREAD
He hath made his wonderful works to be remembered: the LORD is gracious and full of compassion.The Hebrew word zikkārōn (זִכָּרוֹן, memorial) in Exodus and zēkher (זֵכֶר, remembrance) in the psalm share the root זכר (z-k-r, remember). The same root holds both the names carried on the shoulders and the works of the LORD kept in view.
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