Exodus 38:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

And he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּ֛עַשׂ אֶת־מִזְבַּ֥ח הָעֹלָ֖ה עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים חָמֵשׁ֩ אַמּ֨וֹת אָרְכּ֜וֹ וְחָֽמֵשׁ־אַמּ֤וֹת רָחְבּוֹ֙ רָב֔וּעַ וְשָׁלֹ֥שׁ אַמּ֖וֹת קֹמָתֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And wayyaʿas [he made] ʾet-mizbeaḥ [altar of] hāʿōlāh [the burnt offering] ʿăṣê [wood of] šiṭṭîm [acacia]; ḥāmēš [five] ʾammôt [cubits] ʾārkô [its length] wəḥāmēš-ʾammôt [and five cubits] rāḥbô [its width] rābûaʿ [square] wəšālōš [and three] ʾammôt [cubits] qōmātô [its height].

Grammar Details

• *wayyaʿas*: waw consecutive + Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular - and he made
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *mizbeaḥ*: construct state, masculine singular - altar of
• *hāʿōlāh*: definite article + feminine singular noun - the burnt offering
• *ʿăṣê*: construct state, masculine plural - wood of
• *šiṭṭîm*: masculine plural noun - acacia
• *ḥāmēš*: feminine numeral - five
• *ʾammôt*: feminine plural noun - cubits
• *ʾārkô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - its length
• *wəḥāmēš*: waw conjunction + feminine numeral - and five
• *rāḥbô*: masculine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - its width
• *rābûaʿ*: Qal passive participle masculine singular - square/four-sided
• *wəšālōš*: waw conjunction + feminine numeral - and three
• *qōmātô*: feminine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - its height

Word Meanings

• *mizbeaḥ*: altar, place of sacrifice
• *hāʿōlāh*: burnt offering, that which goes up
• *šiṭṭîm*: acacia wood, shittim wood
• *rābûaʿ*: square, four-sided, quadrangular

Referenced Verses

• Exod 27:1-8 : 1 And thou shalt make an altar of shittim wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits. 2 And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass. 3 And thou shalt make his pans to receive his ashes, and his shovels, and his basons, and his fleshhooks, and his firepans: all the vessels thereof thou shalt make of brass. 4 And thou shalt make for it a grate of network of brass; and upon the net shalt thou make four brasen rings in the four corners thereof. 5 And thou shalt put it under the compass of the altar beneath, that the net may be even to the midst of the altar. 6 And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass. 7 And the staves shall be put into the rings, and the staves shall be upon the two sides of the altar, to bear it. 8 Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.
• Exod 40:6 : 6 And thou shalt set the altar of the burnt offering before the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
• Exod 40:29 : 29 And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the LORD commanded Moses.
• 2 Chr 4:1 : 1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length thereof, and twenty cubits the breadth thereof, and ten cubits the height thereof.
• Ezek 43:13-17 : 13 And these are the measures of the altar after the cubits: The cubit is a cubit and an hand breadth; even the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border thereof by the edge thereof round about shall be a span: and this shall be the higher place of the altar. 14 And from the bottom upon the ground even to the lower settle shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser settle even to the greater settle shall be four cubits, and the breadth one cubit. 15 So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns. 16 And the altar shall be twelve cubits long, twelve broad, square in the four squares thereof. 17 And the settle shall be fourteen cubits long and fourteen broad in the four squares thereof; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom thereof shall be a cubit about; and his stairs shall look toward the east.
• John 6:37 : 37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.
• Rom 8:3-4 : 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
• Heb 3:1 : 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;
• Heb 9:14 : 14 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 13:8 : 8 Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.
• Heb 13:10 : 10 We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
• Rev 21:16 : 16 And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.