What Does Exodus 27:16 Mean?

“And for the gate”

an opening, i.e., door or gate

“of the court”

a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls)

“shall be an hanging”

a cover, i.e., veil

“of twenty”

twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth

“cubits”

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)

“of blue”

the cerulean mussel, i.e., the color (violet) obtained therefrom or stuff dyed therewith

“and purple”

purple (the color or the dyed stuff)

a maggot (as voracious); specifically (often with ellipsis of h8144) the crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the color from it, and cl

“and scarlet”

crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it

“linen”

bleached stuff, i.e., white linen or (by analogy) marble

“and fine twined”

to twist (a thread of straw)

an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property

“wrought with needlework”

to variegate color, i.e., embroider; by implication, to fabricate

“and their pillars”

a column (as standing); also a stand, i.e., platform

“four”

four

“and their sockets”

a basis (of a building, a column, etc.)

“four”

four