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Exodus 36

Ex. 36:21 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The length
'orek (Hebrew #753)
length
KJV usage: + forever, length, long.
Pronounce: o'rek'
Origin: from 748
of a board
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
was ten
`eser (Hebrew #6235)
from 6237; ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
KJV usage: ten, (fif-, seven-)teen.
Pronounce: eh'ser
Origin: masculine of term aasarah {as-aw-raw'}
cubits
'ammah (Hebrew #520)
properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
KJV usage: cubit, + hundred (by exchange for 3967), measure, post.
Pronounce: am-maw'
Origin: prolonged from 517
, and the breadth
rochab (Hebrew #7341)
width (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: breadth, broad, largeness, thickness, wideness.
Pronounce: ro'-khab
Origin: from 7337
of a board
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
one
'echad (Hebrew #259)
properly, united, i.e. one; or (as an ordinal) first
KJV usage: a, alike, alone, altogether, and, any(-thing), apiece, a certain, (dai-)ly, each (one), + eleven, every, few, first, + highway, a man, once, one, only, other, some, together,
Pronounce: ekh-awd'
Origin: a numeral from 258
cubit
'ammah (Hebrew #520)
properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
KJV usage: cubit, + hundred (by exchange for 3967), measure, post.
Pronounce: am-maw'
Origin: prolonged from 517
and a half
chetsiy (Hebrew #2677)
the half or middle
KJV usage: half, middle, mid(-night), midst, part, two parts.
Pronounce: khay-tsee'
Origin: from 2673
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Ministry on This Verse

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The length.Each of these boards, taking the cubit at nearly twenty-two inches, was about eighteen feet long, and two feet nine inches broad.
As these boards are said to be standing up (ver. 20,) their length was consequently the height of the tabernacle; and as the two sides were composed of twenty of these, standing up (ver. 23, 25,) and the west end of six, with two boards to project at the corners, (ver. 27, 28,) the tabernacle must therefore, have been thirty cubits, or fifty-five feet long, and about ten cubits, or eighteen feet broad.
These boards were fastened at the bottom by two tenons in each board, which fitted into two mortices in the foundation, at the top by links or hasps, and on the sides by five wooden bars, which ran through rings or staples in each of the boards.
The boards and bars were all overlaid with gold; and their rings for the staves, and their hasps at top, were of the same metal.
The foundation on which they stood consisted of about ninety-six solid blocks of silver, two under each board, about eighteen inches long, and of a suitable thickness; and each weighing a talent, or about a hundred weight.
Four blocks of silver formed the bases of the columns which supported the curtain that divided the inside of the tabernacle into two rooms.
• The ten cubits in height, as already seen in the ten gerahs of the ransom money, speak of full responsibility; and how beautifully do these two fit together—a redemption price equal to the full demand of God’s perfect law which had been broken by us, and an acceptance and standing in Christ which is equally perfect. (“The Sockets and the Boards” by S. Ridout)
• Of course, it is only through the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ that it could be, but “This [One] is the true God and eternal life,” and all that He is imparts its value to what His people are in Him. Thus God sees fit to set forth His people’s standing, not only in the shittim wood but in Him who was both that and the gold. Thus we have a perfect foundation, a perfect redemption, and a perfect standing—Christ. (“The Sockets and the Boards” by S. Ridout)
• The half is added to the width of one cubit. There is a character to the standing which is thus expressed. It is more than mere forgiveness, but fullest justification, as in the fifth part added to the payment of the trespass (Levs. 5:16). God is more glorified in the person and work of our Lord than in the mere obedience of unfallen man. As length or height speaks of full measure, breadth might suggest the character of the measure, as in the curtains, and this character seen in our Lord and in His people, as responding to the claims of God’s throne. (“The Sockets and the Boards” by S. Ridout)

J. N. Darby Translation

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ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board;

W. Kelly Translation

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ten cubits the length of the boards, and one cubit and a half the breadth of one board;

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.)