What Does Numbers 3:37 Mean in the King James?
And the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.
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
What stands is held by more than what stands: bases, pegs, and cords all share the work.
THE MEANING
The court’s boundary is held by a complete arrangement: upright supports, seated bases, ground-set pegs, and cords that bind them. What stands around you likewise depends on points of anchoring and connection, not only on what rises into view.
THE ROOT
עַמֻּדֵי
ʿammudê
GROWS FROM
עמד
ʿ-m-d
To stand, remain, or take one’s stand.
“pillars” in this verse is ʿammudê. English names the pillar as an object; its root keeps the action of standing inside the word. The upright supports are parts that stand within a larger arrangement, not stand-alone sources of strength.
ALSO GROWS
ʿāmad: To stand or remain.
עָמַד
The action at the root of “pillars” is standing in place.
maʿămād: A standing, position, or station.
מַעֲמָד
A pillar’s standing has a place within the court’s larger structure.
וִיתֵדֹתָם
wîyĕtēdōtām
GROWS FROM
יתד
y-t-d
A peg or stake used to fasten and anchor.
The pins are not incidental hardware: the root names the peg that fixes a structure in place. The same Hebrew word appears as “stakes” in Isaiah’s image of an enlarged tent, where a wider dwelling depends on strengthened anchors.
ALSO GROWS
yātēd: A peg, stake, or nail.
יָתֵד
This singular form names the anchoring object behind the court’s pins.
yĕtēdôt: Pegs or stakes.
יְתֵדוֹת
This plural form appears for the tent stakes in Isaiah 54:2, linking the small anchor to the stability of an enlarged dwelling.
THE PATTERN
A dwelling holds because its standing supports, anchors, and connecting parts work together.
And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;In whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord:THE THREAD
Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy stakes;The Hebrew word for the court’s “pins” is the same word rendered “stakes” in Isaiah’s tent image. There, the dwelling can widen because its anchors are strengthened: the small peg helps the larger space hold.
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