Exodus 36:20

KJV1611 – Modern English

And he made boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיַּ֥עַשׂ אֶת־הַקְּרָשִׁ֖ים לַמִּשְׁכָּ֑ן עֲצֵ֥י שִׁטִּ֖ים עֹמְדִֽים

Transliteration

wa-ya'aś 'et-the qərāšîm for-the-miškān 'ăṣê šiṭṭîm 'ōmədîm

Grammar Details

• *wa-ya'aś*: verb, Qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular with consecutive waw - and he made
• *'et*: direct object marker
• *qərāšîm*: noun, masculine plural - boards/frames
• *miškān*: noun, masculine singular with prefixed preposition - for the tabernacle/dwelling place
• *'ăṣê*: noun, masculine plural construct - wood of/trees of
• *šiṭṭîm*: noun, masculine plural - acacia
• *'ōmədîm*: verb, Qal participle masculine plural - standing/upright

Word Meanings

• *qərāšîm*: boards/frames/planks
• *miškān*: tabernacle/dwelling place
• *'ăṣê šiṭṭîm*: acacia wood
• *'ōmədîm*: standing/upright/vertical

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  They made upright frames of acacia wood for the tabernacle.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  And he made boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  And they made bordes for the dwellynge place of sethim wodd that stode

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  And made stondinge bordes for the Habitacion, of Fyrre tre,

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Likewise he made the boards for the Tabernacle, of Shittim wood to stand vp.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  And he made standyng boordes for the tabernacle, of Sittim wood.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  And he made boards for the tabernacle [of] shittim wood, standing up.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  He made the boards for the tent of acacia wood, standing up.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And he maketh the boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood, standing up;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And he made the boards for the tabernacle, of acacia wood, standing up.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And for the uprights of the House they made boards of hard wood.

• World English Bible (2000)

  He made the boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing up.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  He made the frames for the tabernacle of acacia wood as uprights.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 25:5 : 5 Rams' skins dyed red, badgers' skins, and acacia wood,
• Exod 25:10 : 10 And they shall make an ark of acacia wood: two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.
• Exod 26:15-29 : 15 And you shall make boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood standing upright. 16 Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the width of one board. 17 Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order against each other; thus shall you make for all the boards of the tabernacle. 18 And you shall make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward. 19 And you shall make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons. 20 And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side, there shall be twenty boards. 21 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 22 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward, you shall make six boards. 23 And two boards shall you make for the corners of the tabernacle at the two sides. 24 And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together at the top of it to one ring; thus it shall be for both of them; they shall be for the two corners. 25 And there shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. 26 And you shall make bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle, 27 And five bars for the boards of the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the side of the tabernacle, for the two sides westward. 28 And the middle bar in the midst of the boards shall reach from end to end. 29 And you shall overlay the boards with gold and make their rings of gold as holders for the bars; and you shall overlay the bars with gold.
• Exod 40:18-19 : 18 And Moses set up the tabernacle, and fastened its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and set up its pillars. 19 And he spread the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it, as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Num 25:1 : 1 And Israel stayed in Shittim, and the people began to commit immorality with the daughters of Moab.
• Deut 10:3 : 3 And I made an ark of acacia wood, and carved two tablets of stone like the first, and went up the mountain, having the two tablets in my hand.