King James Version
Exodus 36:23 in the King James Version says “And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 36 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:”
Exodus 36:23 · KJV
The length of a board was ten cubits, and the breadth of a board one cubit and a half.
One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another: thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the south side southward:
And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.
And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the north corner, he made twenty boards,
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“for the tabernacle”
H4908a residence (including a shepherd's hut, the lair of animals, figuratively, the grave; also the temple); specifically, the tabernacle (properly, its w
“for the south”
H5045the south (from its drought); specifically, the negeb or southern district of judah, occasionally, egypt (as south to palestine)
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