What Does Exodus 40:19 Mean in the King James?
And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; 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 covering comes after the dwelling is already there: shelter surrounds what exists rather than making it.
THE MEANING
The tent is spread over the dwelling, then another covering is placed above it. The verse speaks now of shelter as a layered act: what is present can be held beneath what is spread over it.
THE ROOT
מִכְסֵה
mikseh
GROWS FROM
כסה
cover, conceal, or clothe
The word for the overhead covering grows from the verb כָּסָה, to cover: the object carries the action of sheltering. The same root describes love covering breaches in Proverbs 10:12, linking a material canopy with a relational image of what is held beneath it.
ALSO GROWS
kāsāh: to cover
כָּסָה
This verb is the action made visible in the covering placed above the dwelling.
tekhasseh: covers
תְּכַסֶּה
Proverbs 10:12 uses this form of the same root for what love covers, extending the image from fabric to relationships.
וַיִּפְרֹשׂ
vayifros
GROWS FROM
פרשׂ
spread out, extend across
“spread abroad” in this verse is vayifros. The verb means to spread out across something, giving the tent the shape of an extended surface laid over the dwelling. Its related word מִפְרָשׂ, sail, preserves the image of fabric opened to catch the wind.
ALSO GROWS
mifrās: sail
מִפְרָשׂ
A sail is spread cloth; the shared root makes the tent here feel like a surface extended overhead.
porēs: spreading out
פּוֹרֵשׂ
This participle from the same root holds the spreading action open, as the tent is stretched over the tabernacle.
מֹשֶׁה
Mosheh
GROWS FROM
משה
draw out
The name Moses is linked to מָשָׁה, to draw out; Exodus 2:10 explains it with מְשִׁיתִהוּ מִן־הַמַּיִם, “I drew him out of the waters.” Here the name of the one drawn out stands beside the layered canopy, joining emergence with shelter.
ALSO GROWS
māshāh: to draw out
מָשָׁה
This is the verb associated with Moses’s name and the movement out of the waters.
meshithihu: I drew him out
מְשִׁיתִהוּ
Exodus 2:10 uses this form of the same root to explain the name Moses.
THE PATTERN
Shelter is placed around life already present, creating refuge through covering.
Unto Adam also and to his wife did the LORD God make coats of skins, and clothed them.He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!THE THREAD
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.The Hebrew word translated covereth, תְּכַסֶּה (tekhasseh), shares the root כסה with the covering in this verse. Exodus pictures the root as fabric above a dwelling; Proverbs extends the same covering image to what love holds over human rupture.
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