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Exodus 36

Ex. 36:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And he made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
s boards
qeresh (Hebrew #7175)
a slab or plank; by implication, a deck of a ship
KJV usage: bench, board.
Pronounce: keh'-resh
Origin: from an unused root meaning to split off
for the tabernacle
mishkan (Hebrew #4908)
a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the Temple); specifically, the Tabernacle (properly, its wooden walls)
KJV usage: dwelleth, dwelling (place), habitation, tabernacle, tent.
Pronounce: mish-kawn'
Origin: from 7931
of shittim
shittah (Hebrew #7848)
the acacia (from its scourging thorns)
KJV usage: shittah, shittim. See also 1029.
Pronounce: shit-taw'
Origin: feminine of a derivative (only in the plural shittiym {shit-teem'}; meaning the sticks of wood) from the same as 7850
wood
`ets (Hebrew #6086)
a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks)
KJV usage: + carpenter, gallows, helve, + pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
Pronounce: ates
Origin: from 6095
u, standing up
`amad (Hebrew #5975)
to stand, in various relations (literal and figurative, intransitive and transitive)
KJV usage: abide (behind), appoint, arise, cease, confirm, continue, dwell, be employed, endure, establish, leave, make, ordain, be (over), place, (be) present (self), raise up, remain, repair, + serve, set (forth, over, -tle, up), (make to, make to be at a, with-)stand (by, fast, firm, still, up), (be at a) stay (up), tarry.
Pronounce: aw-mad'
Origin: a primitive root
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Ex. 26:15• 15And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up. (Ex. 26:15)
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Ex. 25:5,10• 5And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
 10And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. (Ex. 25:5,10)
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Num. 25:1• 1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. (Num. 25:1)
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Deut. 10:3• 3And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. (Deut. 10:3)

More on:

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Chrysolyte; Chrysolite,
Shittim Wood; Shittah Tree,
The Tabernacle

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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boards.
Ex. 26:15‑25• 15And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.
 16Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half shall be the breadth of one board.
 17Two tenons shall there be in one board, set in order one against another: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
 18And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.
 19And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
 20And for the second side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards:
 21And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board.
 22And for the sides of the tabernacle westward thou shalt make six boards.
 23And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the two sides.
 24And they shall be coupled together beneath, and they shall be coupled together above the head of it unto one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
 25And they shall be eight boards, and their sockets of silver, sixteen sockets; two sockets under one board, and two sockets under another board. (Ex. 26:15‑25)
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Ex. 40:18‑19• 18And Moses reared up the tabernacle, and fastened his sockets, and set up the boards thereof, and put in the bars thereof, and reared up his pillars.
 19And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the Lord commanded Moses. (Ex. 40:18‑19)
shittim wood.
Ex. 25:5,10• 5And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,
 10And they shall make an ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof, and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof. (Ex. 25:5,10)
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Num. 25:1• 1And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. (Num. 25:1)
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Deut. 10:3• 3And I made an ark of shittim wood, and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first, and went up into the mount, having the two tables in mine hand. (Deut. 10:3)
• {v.20-34}The third view of the Tabernacle is of the structure as made of the gold-covered boards resting upon the silver sockets. These represent Christ’s people complete in Him and resting upon His accomplished redemption, and thus “builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit” (Eph. 2:22). (“The Linen Curtains and Colors” by S. Ridout)
• {acacia} (Isa. 41:19, 20). In the future day of Israel’s blessing God will make the wilderness and solitary place to rejoice. The nation was a moral waste in which nothing grew for God, and this continues until the full time for blessing comes, when God’s grace will make glad even the desert. Then the high and fragrant cedar, and the beautiful acacia and the evergreen myrtle, and the fruitful olive will flourish, and the desert shall blossom as the rose. The tree is the reminder of the vigor of life in the midst of that which at present is dead and barren. (“The Boards - The Acacia and the Gold” by S. Ridout)
• As we shall see, the boards primarily refer to the redeemed people of God, who are fitted and formed by His grace to be His abode. So the cutting and preparing of the boards would answer to the hewing of the stones for the temple, and both refer to the “living stones” of the true temple of God (1 Peter 2:5). (“The Boards - The Acacia and the Gold” by S. Ridout)
• The acacia, or shittim, however, was the only tree which grew in the desert—the only one practically available for the purpose intended—a habitation in the desert, made of the wood of the desert....And so when our Lord came, He was to the nation “as a root out of a dry ground.” They saw nothing in Him to desire. But how different to the eye of God! Here was a “tender plant” growing in the midst of abounding dearth and desolation; life and vigor manifesting themselves in Him in the scene of death. (“The Boards - The Acacia and the Gold” by S. Ridout)
• The wood, by its durability, particularly points to the incorruptibility of His humanity. Upon this last we must dwell in some detail, for it is the prominent material, not only in the framework of the tabernacle, but in all its furniture, except the laver and the candlestick. (“The Boards - The Acacia and the Gold” by S. Ridout)
• There is absolutely no taint in that “Son of Man.” It is not said “that innocent thing,” but “that Holy Thing.” The first man before the fall was innocent, guiltless, but the condition was a negative and unstable one. He was of the earth, earthy—made of dust; with a spirit, but a creature, and nothing more. The Second Man is out of heaven (1 Cor. 15:47). He was “holy,” and had a positive, inherent, abiding character, utterly incapable of sin. He was a partaker of the divine nature as incarnate, with nothing of “the flesh” in any part of His person. His positive holiness was because of the direct, divine work of the Spirit in His incarnation—absolutely apart from fallen nature. (“The Boards - The Acacia and the Gold” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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

WK Verse Note

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)