Exodus 38:1

Webster's Bible (1833)

He made the altar of burnt offering of acacia wood. It was square. Its length was five cubits, its breadth was five cubits, and its height was three cubits.

📖 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 "You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and its height shall be three cubits. 2 You shall make its horns on its four corners; its horns shall be of one piece with it; and you shall overlay it with brass. 3 You shall make its pots to take away its ashes, its shovels, its basins, its flesh hooks, and its fire pans: all its vessels you shall make of brass. 4 You shall make a grating for it of network of brass: and on the net you shall make four brazen rings in its four corners. 5 You shall put it under the ledge around the altar beneath, that the net may reach halfway up the altar. 6 You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with brass. 7 Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar, when carrying it. 8 Hollow with planks shall you make it: as it has been shown you on the mountain, so shall they make it.
• Exod 40:6 : 6 You shall set the altar of burnt offering before the door of the tent of the tent of meeting.
• Exod 40:29 : 29 He set the altar of burnt offering at the door of the tent of the tent of meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the meal-offering, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
• 2 Chr 4:1 : 1 Moreover he made an altar of brass, twenty cubits the length of it, and twenty cubits the breadth of it, and ten cubits the height of it.
• Ezek 43:13-17 : 13 These are the measures of the altar by cubits (the cubit is a cubit and a handbreadth): the bottom shall be a cubit, and the breadth a cubit, and the border of it by the edge of it round about a span; and this shall be the base of the altar. 14 From the bottom on the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit. 15 The upper altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar hearth and upward there shall be four horns. 16 The altar hearth shall be twelve [cubits] long by twelve broad, square in the four sides of it. 17 The ledge shall be fourteen [cubits] long by fourteen broad in the four sides of it; and the border about it shall be half a cubit; and the bottom of it shall be a cubit round about; and the steps of it shall look toward the east.
• John 6:37 : 37 All those who the Father gives me will come to me. Him who comes to me I will in no way throw out.
• Rom 8:3-4 : 3 For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh; 4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Rom 12:1 : 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.
• Heb 3:1 : 1 Therefore, holy brothers, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus;
• Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
• Heb 13:8 : 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
• Heb 13:10 : 10 We have an altar from which those who serve the holy tabernacle have no right to eat.
• 1 Pet 2:5 : 5 You also, as living stones, are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
• Rev 21:16 : 16 The city lies foursquare, and its length is as great as its breadth. He measured the city with the reed, Twelve thousand twelve stadia{12,012 stadia = or 2,221 kilometers or 1,380 miles. TR reads 12,000 stadia instead of 12,012 stadia.}. Its length, breadth, and height are equal.