King James Version
Exodus 38:28 in the King James Version says “And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, ...” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 38 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.”
Exodus 38:28 · KJV
A bekah for every man, that is, half a shekel, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for every one that went to be numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for six hundred thousand and three thousand and five hundred and fifty men. every man: Heb. a poll
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
And the brass of the offering was seventy talents, and two thousand and four hundred shekels.
And therewith he made the sockets to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the brasen altar, and the brasen grate for it, and all the vessels of the altar,
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“And of the thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“seven”
H7651seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number
“their chapiters”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
“and filleted”
H2836to cling, i.e., join, (figuratively) to love, delight in; elliptically; to deliver
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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