Exodus 25:23

World English Bible (2000)

"You shall make a table of acacia wood. Two cubits shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth, and one and a half cubits its height.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעָשִׂ֥יתָ שֻׁלְחָ֖ן עֲצֵ֣י שִׁטִּ֑ים אַמָּתַ֤יִם אָרְכּוֹ֙ וְאַמָּ֣ה רָחְבּ֔וֹ וְאַמָּ֥ה וָחֵ֖צִי קֹמָתֽוֹ׃

Transliteration

And ʿāśîtā šulḥān ʿăṣê šiṭṭîm; ʾammātayim ʾorkô and ʾammāh roḥbô and ʾammāh and half qōmātô

Grammar Details

• *ʿāśîtā*: Qal perfect, 2nd masculine singular - you shall make
• *šulḥān*: masculine singular noun - table
• *ʿăṣê*: masculine plural construct - wood of
• *šiṭṭîm*: feminine plural noun - acacia
• *ʾammātayim*: feminine dual noun - two cubits
• *ʾorkô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its length
• *ʾammāh*: feminine singular noun - cubit
• *roḥbô*: masculine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its width
• *qōmātô*: feminine singular noun with 3rd masculine singular suffix - its height

Word Meanings

• *šulḥān*: table/surface

Referenced Verses

• Exod 37:10-16 : 10 He made the table of acacia wood. Its length was two cubits, and its breadth was a cubit, and its height was a cubit and a half. 11 He overlaid it with pure gold, and made a gold molding around it. 12 He made a border of a handbreadth around it, and made a golden molding on its border around it. 13 He cast four rings of gold for it, and put the rings in the four corners that were on its four feet. 14 The rings were close by the border, the places for the poles to carry the table. 15 He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table. 16 He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
• Heb 9:2 : 2 For a tabernacle was prepared. In the first part were the lampstand, the table, and the show bread; which is called the Holy Place.
• 1 Kgs 7:48 : 48 Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of Yahweh: the golden altar, and the table whereupon the show bread was, of gold;
• 2 Chr 4:8 : 8 He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. He made one hundred basins of gold.
• 2 Chr 4:19 : 19 Solomon made all the vessels that were in the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables with the show bread on them;
• Ezek 40:41-42 : 41 Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they killed [the sacrifices]. 42 There were four tables for the burnt offering, of cut stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments with which they killed the burnt offering and the sacrifice.
• 1 Chr 28:16 : 16 and the gold by weight for the tables of show bread, for every table; and silver for the tables of silver;
• Exod 40:22-23 : 22 He put the table in the Tent of Meeting, on the side of the tabernacle northward, outside of the veil. 23 He set the bread in order on it before Yahweh, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
• Lev 24:6 : 6 You shall set them in two rows, six on a row, on the pure gold table before Yahweh.
• Num 3:31 : 31 Their duty shall be the ark, the table, the lamp stand, the altars, the vessels of the sanctuary with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.