King James Version
Exodus 37:23 in the King James Version says “And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 37 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.”
Exodus 37:23 · KJV
And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.
Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“his seven”
H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
“gold”
H2091gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e., yellow), as oil, a clear sky
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