Exodus 38:19

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

It had four posts and four bronze bases. Their hooks were silver, and the tops of the posts and their bands were overlaid with silver.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַמֻּֽדֵיהֶם֙ אַרְבָּעָ֔ה וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֥ם אַרְבָּעָ֖ה נְחֹ֑שֶׁת וָוֵיהֶ֣ם כֶּ֔סֶף וְצִפּ֧וּי רָאשֵׁיהֶ֛ם וַחֲשֻׁקֵיהֶ֖ם כָּֽסֶף׃

Transliteration

And wəʿammûdêhem [their pillars] ʾarbāʿāh [four], and wəʾadnêhem [their sockets] ʾarbāʿāh [four] nəḥōšet [bronze]; wāwêhem [their hooks] kesep [silver], and wəṣippûy [overlaying of] rāʾšêhem [their tops] waḥăšuqêhem [and their connecting rods] kāsep [silver].

Grammar Details

• *wəʿammûdêhem*: waw conjunction + masculine plural noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their pillars
• *ʾarbāʿāh*: masculine numeral - four
• *wəʾadnêhem*: waw conjunction + masculine plural noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their sockets
• *nəḥōšet*: feminine singular noun - bronze, copper
• *wāwêhem*: masculine plural noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their hooks
• *kesep*: masculine singular noun - silver
• *wəṣippûy*: waw conjunction + construct state, masculine singular - and overlaying of
• *rāʾšêhem*: masculine plural noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - their heads/tops
• *waḥăšuqêhem*: waw conjunction + masculine plural noun + 3rd masculine plural suffix - and their connecting rods/bands
• *kāsep*: masculine singular noun - silver

Word Meanings

• *wāwêhem*: their hooks, their pegs, their pins

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Their pillars were four, and their sockets of bronze four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals and their bands of silver.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And their pillars were four, and their sockets of brass four; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets of silver.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And the pilers were.iiij. with.iiij. sokettes of brasse, ad the knoppes of syluer, ad the heedes ouerlayde with syluer and whoped aboute with syluer,

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  foure pilers also therto, & foure sokettes of brasse, and their knoppes of syluer, and their heades ouerlayed, and their whoopes of syluer.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  And their pillars were foure with their foure sockets of brasse: their hookes of siluer, & the couering of their chapiters, & their filets of siluer.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And their pillers were foure, and their foure sockettes of brasse, & the knoppes of siluer, and the heades ouerlayde with siluer, and hooped about with siluer.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And their pillars [were] four, and their sockets [of] brass four; their hooks [of] silver, and the overlaying of their chapiters and their fillets [of] silver.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  and their pillars `are' four, and their sockets of brass four, their pegs `are' of silver, and the overlaying of their tops and their fillets `are' of silver;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.

• World English Bible (2000)

  Their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  with four posts and their four bronze bases. Their hooks and their bands were silver, and their tops were overlaid with silver.