Hebrews 9:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the lampstand, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the sanctuary.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Σκηνὴ γὰρ κατεσκευάσθη· ἡ πρώτη, ἐν ᾗ ἥ τε λυχνία, καὶ ἡ τράπεζα, καὶ ἡ πρόθεσις τῶν ἄρτων· ἥτις λέγεται ἅγια.

Transliteration

Skēnē gar kateskeuasthē; the prōtē, in hē hē te lychnia, and the trapeza, and the prothesis tōn artōn; hētis legetai hagia.

Grammar Details

• *Skēnē*: nominative feminine singular - 'tabernacle/tent'
• *gar*: conjunction - 'for'
• *kateskeuasthē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - 'was prepared/constructed'
• *prōtē*: nominative feminine singular - 'first'
• *hē*: relative pronoun, dative feminine singular - 'in which'
• *te*: connective particle - 'both/and'
• *lychnia*: nominative feminine singular - 'lampstand'
• *trapeza*: nominative feminine singular - 'table'
• *prothesis*: nominative feminine singular - 'setting forth/presentation'
• *tōn artōn*: genitive masculine plural - 'of the loaves/bread'
• *hētis*: relative pronoun, nominative feminine singular - 'which'
• *legetai*: present passive indicative, 3rd person singular - 'is called'
• *hagia*: nominative neuter plural - 'holy places/sanctuary'

Word Meanings

• *Skēnē*: tabernacle/tent/dwelling
• *kateskeuasthē*: was prepared/was constructed/was set up
• *prōtē*: first [section]/outer [tabernacle]
• *lychnia*: lampstand/menorah
• *trapeza*: table
• *prothesis tōn artōn*: presentation of the bread/showbread/bread of presence
• *hagia*: Holy Place/sanctuary/holy [places]

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  For a tabernacle was prepared, the first room containing the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the bread, which is called the Holy Place.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein {G1722} [were] the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  For there was a fore tabernacle made wherin was the candlesticke and the table and the shewe breed which is called wholy.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For there was made a foretabernacle, wherin was ye candilsticke, and the table, and the shewe bred: and this is called ye Holy.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For the first Tabernacle was made, wherein was the candlesticke, and the table, and the shewebread, which Tabernacle is called the Holy places.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For there was a fore tabernacle made, wherein was the lyght, and the table, and the shewe bread, whiche is called holy.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein [was] the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  For there was a tabernacle prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  for a tabernacle was prepared, the first, in which was both the lamp-stand, and the table, and the bread of the presence -- which is called `Holy;'

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein `were' the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For there was a tabernacle prepared, the first, wherein [were] the candlestick, and the table, and the showbread; which is called the Holy place.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  For the first Tent was made ready, having in it the vessels for the lights and the table and the ordering of the bread; and this is named the holy place.

• World English Bible (2000)

  For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  For a tent was prepared, the outer one, which contained the lampstand, the table, and the presentation of the loaves; this is called the holy place.

Referenced Verses

• Exod 40:4 : 4 And you shall bring in the table, and set in order the things that are to be set in order upon it; and you shall bring in the candlestick, and light the lamps thereof.
• Lev 24:5-8 : 5 And you shall take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes from it: two tenths of an ephah shall be in each cake. 6 And you shall set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the LORD. 7 And you shall put pure frankincense on each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, an offering made by fire to the LORD. 8 Every Sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
• Exod 26:35 : 35 And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the candlestick opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.
• Exod 39:36-38 : 36 The table, and all its utensils, and the showbread, 37 The pure gold lampstand, with its lamps, even the lamps to be set in order, and all its utensils, and the oil for light, 38 The golden altar, the anointing oil, the sweet incense, and the screen for the tabernacle door,
• Exod 40:2 : 2 On the first day of the first month you shall set up the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation.
• Exod 40:18-20 : 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. 20 And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the poles on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:
• Exod 40:22-24 : 22 And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside the veil. 23 And he set the bread in order upon it before the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses. 24 And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, opposite the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.
• Exod 39:32-34 : 32 Thus all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting was finished, and the children of Israel did according to all that the LORD commanded Moses; they did so. 33 And they brought the tabernacle to Moses, the tent, and all its furniture, its hooks, its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets, 34 The covering of rams' skins dyed red, the covering of badger skins, and the veil of the covering,
• Exod 25:8-9 : 8 And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them. 9 According to all that I show you, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all its instruments, even so shall you make it.
• Exod 25:23-26:30 : 23 You shall also make a table of acacia wood: two cubits shall be its length, a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height. 24 And you shall overlay it with pure gold, and make a border of gold all around. 25 And you shall make for it a rim of a handbreadth all around, and you shall make a golden border for the rim all around. 26 And you shall make for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that are on its four legs. 27 The rings shall be close to the rim, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 28 And you shall make the poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be carried with them. 29 And you shall make its dishes, and spoons, and covers, and bowls for pouring: you shall make them of pure gold. 30 And you shall set the showbread on the table before me always. 31 And you shall make a lampstand of pure gold: of hammered work shall the lampstand be made; its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its knobs, and its flowers shall be of the same piece. 32 And six branches shall come out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side: 33 Three bowls shall be made like almond blossoms on one branch, with a knob and a flower, and three bowls made like almond blossoms on the other branch, with a knob and a flower; so for the six branches that come out of the lampstand. 34 And on the lampstand itself shall be four bowls made like almond blossoms, with its knobs and its flowers. 35 And there shall be a knob under two branches of the same piece, and a knob under two branches of the same piece, and a knob under two branches of the same piece, according to the six branches that extend from the lampstand. 36 Their knobs and their branches shall be of one piece; all of it shall be one hammered work of pure gold. 37 And you shall make its seven lamps; and they shall arrange its lamps so that they give light in front of it. 38 Its wick trimmers and their trays shall be of pure gold. 39 It shall be made of a talent of pure gold, with all these utensils. 40 And see that you make them according to the pattern which was shown to you on the mountain. 1 Moreover, you shall make the tabernacle with ten curtains of fine twisted linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet; with cherubim of skillful work shall you make them. 2 The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of one curtain four cubits; and every one of the curtains shall have one measure. 3 The five curtains shall be coupled together to one another; and the other five curtains shall be coupled to one another. 4 And you shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain on the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shall you make in the outermost edge of another curtain, in the coupling of the second. 5 Fifty loops shall you make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shall you make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second, that the loops may hold together one to another. 6 And you shall make fifty clasps of gold and couple the curtains together with the clasps; and it shall be one tabernacle. 7 And you shall make curtains of goats' hair to be a covering upon the tabernacle; eleven curtains shall you make. 8 The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the width of one curtain four cubits; and the eleven curtains shall be all of one measure. 9 And you shall couple five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves, and shall double the sixth curtain at the front of the tabernacle. 10 And you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the one curtain that is outermost in the coupling, and fifty loops in the edge of the curtain which couples the second. 11 And you shall make fifty clasps of bronze and put the clasps into the loops and couple the tent together, that it may be one. 12 And the remainder that remains of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle. 13 And a cubit on one side and a cubit on the other side of that which remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it. 14 And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers' skins. 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. 30 And you shall raise up the tabernacle according to its pattern which was shown to you on the mountain.
• Exod 26:33 : 33 And you shall hang up the veil under the clasps, that you may bring in there within the veil the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall divide for you between the holy place and the most holy.
• Exod 29:1 : 1 And this is what you shall do to them to consecrate them, to minister to me in the priest's office: Take one young bull, and two rams without blemish,
• Exod 29:35 : 35 Thus you shall do for Aaron and his sons, according to all that I have commanded you. For seven days you shall consecrate them.
• Exod 36:8-9 : 8 And every wise-hearted man among them who did the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of finely twisted linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: he made them with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman. 9 The length of one curtain was twenty-eight cubits, and the width of one curtain four cubits: all the curtains were of one size. 10 And he joined five curtains to one another, and the other five curtains he joined to one another. 11 And he made loops of blue yarn on the edge of one curtain on the selvedge in the joining; he did the same on the outermost edge of the other curtain, in the joining of the second set. 12 He made fifty loops on one curtain, and he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain in the second set, so the loops could hold one curtain to the other. 13 And he made fifty gold clasps and fastened the curtains to one another with the clasps, so it became one tabernacle. 14 And he made curtains of goats' hair for the tent over the tabernacle: eleven curtains he made for them. 15 The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and the width of one curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains were all of one size. 16 And he joined five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves. 17 And he made fifty loops on the edge of the curtain at the end in the second set. 18 He made fifty bronze clasps to join the tent together, so it would be one. 19 And he made a covering for the tent of ram skins dyed red, and a covering of badger skins above that. 20 And he made boards for the tabernacle of acacia wood, standing upright. 21 The length of a board was ten cubits, and the width of a board one cubit and a half. 22 Each board had two tenons, equally spaced; he did the same for all the boards of the tabernacle. 23 And he made boards for the tabernacle: twenty boards on the south side southward. 24 And forty silver sockets he made under the twenty boards: two sockets under each board for its two tenons. 25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which faced north, he made twenty boards, 26 And their forty silver sockets: two sockets under each board. 27 And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards. 28 And he made two boards for the corners of the tabernacle in the rear. 29 And they were coupled together below, and coupled together at the top with one ring; he made both of them alike for the two corners. 30 So there were eight boards and their sockets—sixteen sockets of silver—two sockets under each board. 31 And he made bars of acacia wood: five for the boards on one side of the tabernacle, 32 And five bars for the boards on the other side of the tabernacle, and five bars for the boards of the tabernacle westward. 33 And he made the middle bar to pass through the boards from one end to the other. 34 And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to serve as holders for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold. 35 And he made a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and finely twisted linen: he made it with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman. 36 And he made four pillars of acacia wood for it, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were gold, and he cast four silver sockets for them. 37 And he made a screen for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and finely twisted linen, of needlework; 38 And its five pillars with their hooks; and he overlaid their tops and their bands with gold: but their five sockets were bronze.
• Exod 37:10-24 : 10 And he made the table of acacia wood: two cubits was its length, and a cubit its width, and a cubit and a half its height. 11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. 12 Also he made a border of a handbreadth around it; and made a gold molding for the border around it. 13 And he cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings on the four corners that were at its four legs. 14 The rings were opposite the border, as holders for the poles to carry the table. 15 And he made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. 16 And he made the utensils which were on the table, its dishes, its pans, its bowls, and its jars to pour with, of pure gold. 17 And he made the lampstand of pure gold: of hammered work made he the lampstand; its shaft, its branches, its bowls, its knobs, and its flowers were of the same piece. 18 And six branches going out of its sides; three branches of the lampstand out of one side, and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side. 19 Three bowls made like almonds upon one branch, a knob and a flower; and three bowls made like almonds on another branch, a knob and a flower: thus throughout the six branches going out of the lampstand. 20 And on the lampstand were four bowls made like almonds, its knobs, and its flowers. 21 And a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, and a knob under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it. 22 Their knobs and their branches were of one piece with it: all of it was one hammered piece of pure gold. 23 And he made its seven lamps, its wick trimmers, and its trays of pure gold. 24 Of a talent of pure gold he made it, and all its utensils.