What Does Exodus 40:17 Mean in the King James?
And it came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.
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 tabernacle’s name grows from the word for dwelling, whose sibling means “neighbor”: the sacred takes shape as nearness.
THE MEANING
The dwelling rises into place at the opening of a new cycle. What is meant to be near takes a shape that stands within your life; presence becomes tangible rather than distant.
THE ROOT
מִשְׁכָּן
mishkan
GROWS FROM
שׁכן
sh-k-n
To dwell, settle, or remain.
“tabernacle” in this verse is mishkan. The word for the dwelling grows from the verb “to dwell”; a related word, שָׁכֵן (shakhen), means “neighbor,” one who lives nearby. The name holds the purpose of the structure: dwelling makes nearness concrete, a presence among you.
ALSO GROWS
shakan: To dwell or settle.
שָׁכַן
The tabernacle takes its name from the act it makes possible: dwelling among you.
shakhen: Neighbor; one who dwells nearby.
שָׁכֵן
This related word brings out the nearness held in the tabernacle’s name.
mishkan: Dwelling place; tabernacle.
מִשְׁכָּן
The structure is named for dwelling, so its purpose is woven into its name.
הוּקַם
huqam
GROWS FROM
קום
q-w-m
To rise or stand; in a causative form, to raise or establish.
“reared up” in this verse is huqam. The Hebrew verb comes from qum, “rise, stand,” in a form meaning “was set up” or “was established.” The verse describes the dwelling being made to stand, a place for nearness takes visible form.
ALSO GROWS
qum: To rise or stand.
קוּם
The root puts standing at the center of the act described by “reared up.”
heqim: To raise up or establish.
הֵקִים
This causative form shows the movement from rising to being set firmly in place.
THE PATTERN
Presence takes shape by dwelling among people, then within them.
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?THE THREAD
And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.The Hebrew verb “dwell,” שָׁכַן (shakan, to dwell), is the root carried in מִשְׁכָּן (mishkan, tabernacle). Exodus 25:8 gives the purpose compressed into this verse’s name: the dwelling stands so presence can be among you.
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