Go
Articles on

Exodus 26

Ex. 26:31 KJV (With Strong’s)

+
31
And thou shalt make
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
al vail
poreketh (Hebrew #6532)
a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen
KJV usage: vail.
Pronounce: po-reh'-keth
Origin: feminine active participle of the same as 6531
of blue
tkeleth (Hebrew #8504)
the cerulean mussel, i.e. the color (violet) obtained therefrom or stuff dyed therewith
KJV usage: blue.
Pronounce: tek-ay'-leth
Origin: probably for 7827
, and purple
'argaman (Hebrew #713)
purple (the color or the dyed stuff)
KJV usage: purple.
Pronounce: ar-gaw-mawn'
Origin: of foreign origin
, and scarlet
towla` (Hebrew #8438)
or towla ath {to-lah'-ath}; or tolaiath {to-lah'-ath}; from 3216; a maggot (as voracious); specifically (often with ellipsis of 8144) the crimson-grub, but used only (in this connection) of the color from it, and cloths dyed therewith
KJV usage: crimson, scarlet, worm.
Pronounce: to-law'
Origin: and (feminine) towleoah {to-lay-aw'}
shaniy (Hebrew #8144)
crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
KJV usage: crimson, scarlet (thread).
Pronounce: shaw-nee'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
, and fine twined
shazar (Hebrew #7806)
to twist (a thread of straw)
KJV usage: twine.
Pronounce: shaw-zar'
Origin: a primitive root
linen
shesh (Hebrew #8336)
for 7893; bleached stuff, i.e. white linen or (by analogy) marble
KJV usage: X blue, fine ((twined)) linen, marble, silk.
Pronounce: shaysh
Origin: or (for alliteration with 4897) shshiy {shesh-ee'}
of cunning
chashab (Hebrew #2803)
properly, to plait or interpenetrate, i.e. (literally) to weave or (gen.) to fabricate; figuratively, to plot or contrive (usually in a malicious sense); hence (from the mental effort) to think, regard, value, compute
KJV usage: (make) account (of), conceive, consider, count, cunning (man, work, workman), devise, esteem, find out, forecast, hold, imagine, impute, invent, be like, mean, purpose, reckon(-ing be made), regard, think.
Pronounce: khaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
work
ma`aseh (Hebrew #4639)
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV usage: act, art, + bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, X well, ((handy-, needle-, net-))work(ing, - manship), wrought.
Pronounce: mah-as-eh'
Origin: from 6213
: with cherubims
kruwb (Hebrew #3742)
a cherub or imaginary figure
KJV usage: cherub, (plural) cherubims.
Pronounce: ker-oob'
Origin: of uncertain derivation
shall it be made
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
:
l
Ex. 36:35• 35And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus: of artistic work he made it with cherubim. (Ex. 36:35)
;
Lev. 16:2• 2and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the sanctuary inside the veil before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark, that he die not; for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat. (Lev. 16:2)
;
2 Chron. 3:14• 14And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and byssus, and made cherubim upon it. (2 Chron. 3:14)
;
Matt. 27:51• 51And lo, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were rent, (Matt. 27:51)
;
Heb. 9:3,8• 3but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies,
 8the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing; (Heb. 9:3,8)
;
Heb. 10:20• 20the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh, (Heb. 10:20)

More on:

+
Blue,
Cunning,
Linen,
Purple,
Scarlet,
Vail; Veil

Cross References

+

Ministry on This Verse

+
a vail of.
Ex. 36:35• 35And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus: of artistic work he made it with cherubim. (Ex. 36:35)
;
Ex. 40:3,21• 3And thou shalt put in it the ark of the testimony, and shalt cover the ark with the veil.
 21And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and hung up the veil of separation, and covered the ark of the testimony; as Jehovah had commanded Moses. (Ex. 40:3,21)
;
Lev. 16:2,15• 2and Jehovah said to Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the sanctuary inside the veil before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark, that he die not; for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat.
 15And he shall slaughter the goat of the sin-offering, which is for the people, and bring its blood inside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat, and before the mercy-seat; (Lev. 16:2,15)
;
2 Chron. 3:14• 14And he made the veil of blue, and purple, and crimson, and byssus, and made cherubim upon it. (2 Chron. 3:14)
;
Matt. 27:51• 51And lo, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom, and the earth was shaken, and the rocks were rent, (Matt. 27:51)
;
Mark 15:38• 38And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom. (Mark 15:38)
;
Luke 23:45• 45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple rent in the midst. (Luke 23:45)
;
Eph. 2:14• 14For *he* is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure, (Eph. 2:14)
;
Heb. 9:3‑8• 3but after the second veil a tabernacle which is called Holy of holies,
 4having a golden censer, and the ark of the covenant, covered round in every part with gold, in which were the golden pot that had the manna, and the rod of Aaron that had sprouted, and the tables of the covenant;
 5and above over it the cherubim of glory shadowing the mercy-seat; concerning which it is not now the time to speak in detail.
 6Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests enter at all times, accomplishing the services;
 7but into the second, the high priest only, once a year, not without blood, which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people:
 8the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing; (Heb. 9:3‑8)
;
Heb. 10:20‑21• 20the new and living way which he has dedicated for us through the veil, that is, his flesh,
 21and having a great priest over the house of God, (Heb. 10:20‑21)
blue.
Ex. 25:4• 4and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' hair, (Ex. 25:4)
;
Ex. 35:6,25,35• 6and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and byssus, and goats' hair,
 25And every woman that was wise-hearted spun with her hands, and brought what she had spun: the blue, and the purple, and the scarlet, and the byssus.
 35he has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work of the engraver, and of the artificer, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in byssus, and of the weaver, even of them that do every kind of work, and of those that devise artistic work (Ex. 35:6,25,35)
;
Ex. 36:8• 8And every wise-hearted man among those that wrought the work of the tabernacle made ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work did he make them. (Ex. 36:8)
purple.{Argaman,} a very precious colour, extracted from the purpura, or murex, a species of shell-fish; and supposed to be the same with the costly and much celebrated Tyrian purple.scarlet.Tolaâth; properly the worm whence the scarlet colour was produced; which grew in a coccus, or excrescence, of a shrub of the ilex kind, like the cochineal worm in the Opuntia of America; which is arranged under the same genus as the Arabic {Kermez,} which also denotes this colour.cunning work.
Ex. 26:1• 1And thou shalt make the tabernacle with ten curtains of twined byssus, and blue, and purple, and scarlet: with cherubim of artistic work shalt thou make them. (Ex. 26:1)
;
Ex. 28:15• 15And thou shalt make the breastplate of judgment of artistic work, like the work of the ephod thou shalt make it; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus shalt thou make it. (Ex. 28:15)
;
Ex. 38:23• 23and with him Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, an engraver and artificer, and an embroiderer in blue, and in purple, and in scarlet, and in byssus. (Ex. 38:23)
;
2 Chron. 2:7‑13• 7And now send me a man skilful to work in gold, and in silver, and in bronze, and in iron, and in purple and crimson and blue, and experienced in carving, besides the skilful men that are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, whom David my father provided.
 8Send me also cedar-trees, cypress-trees, and sandal-wood trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants are experienced in cutting timber in Lebanon; and behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,
 9even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house that I build shall be great and wonderful.
 10And behold, I will give to thy servants the hewers that fell timber, twenty thousand measures of beaten wheat, and twenty thousand measures of barley, and twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.
 11And Huram king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because Jehovah loved his people, he made thee king over them.
 12And Huram said, Blessed be Jehovah the God of Israel, that made the heavens and the earth, who has given to David the king a wise son, endued with prudence and understanding, who will build a house for Jehovah and a house for his kingdom.
 13And now, I send a skilful man, endued with understanding, Huram Abi, (2 Chron. 2:7‑13)
;
Psa. 137:5• 5If I forget thee, Jerusalem, let my right hand forget its skill; (Psa. 137:5)
;
Song of Sol. 7:1• 1How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist. (Song of Sol. 7:1)
cherubims shall it be made.
Ex. 25:18• 18And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat. (Ex. 25:18)
• Figurative, I doubt not, of the essential purity of Christ as a man, and of all the divine graces embroidered, as it were, thereon. To this was also added cherubim, the figure, as we have seen, of judicial power, conferred, as we know, on Christ as man: God “will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained.” (“Exodus 26” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

+
31
And thou shalt make a veila of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus; of artistic work shall it be made, with cherubim.

JND Translation Notes

+
a
Or "screen."