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Exodus 37:4

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And he cast for it four rings of gold, [to be set] by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.	And he made staves [of] shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.	And he put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, to bear the ark.

Verse Text

KJV with Strong's Numbers

And he made^H6213 staves^H905 of shittim^H7848 wood^H6086, and overlaid^H6823 them with gold^H2091.

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Original Hebrew

וַיַּעַשׂ בַּדֵּי עֲצֵי שִׁטִּים וַיְצַף אֹתָם זָהָב׃

Hebrew	Transliteration	Strong's	Morphology	Gloss
וַ/יַּ֥עַשׂ	va/i.Ya.'as	H6213	HC/Vqw3ms	and/ he made
בַּדֵּ֖י	ba.Dei	H905	HNcmpc	poles of
עֲצֵ֣י	'a.Tzei	H6086	HNcmpc	wood(s) of
שִׁטִּ֑ים	shi.Tim	H7848	HNcfpa	acacia
וַ/יְצַ֥ף	va/y.Tzaf	H6823	HC/Vpw3ms	and/ he overlaid
אֹתָ֖/ם	'o.Ta/m	H853	HTo/Sp3mp	(obj.)/ them
זָהָֽב	za.Hav	H2091	HNcmsa	gold

Source: Westminster Leningrad Codex (MorphHB), TAHOT (Tyndale House)

Strong's References

• H905 — בַּד (bad, bad): from בָּדַד; properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of atree, bar forcarrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides; alone, apart, bar, besides, branch, by self, of each alike, except, only, part, staff, strength.
• H2091 — זָהָב (zâhâb, zaw-hawb'): from an unused root meaning to shimmer; gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e. yellow), as oil, a clear sky; gold(-en), fair weather.
• H6086 — עֵץ (ʻêts, ates): from עָצָה; a tree (from its firmness); hence, wood (plural sticks); [phrase] carpenter, gallows, helve, [phrase] pine, plank, staff, stalk, stick, stock, timber, tree, wood.
• H6213 — עָשָׂה (ʻâsâh, aw-saw'): a primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application; accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, [idiom] certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, [phrase] displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, [phrase] feast, (fight-) ing man, [phrase] finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, [phrase] hinder, hold (a feast), [idiom] indeed, [phrase] be industrious, [phrase] journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, [phrase] officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, [idiom] sacrifice, serve, set, shew, [idiom] sin, spend, [idiom] surely, take, [idiom] thoroughly, trim, [idiom] very, [phrase] vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
• H6823 — צָפָה (tsâphâh, tsaw-faw'): a primitive root (probably identical with צָפָה through the idea of expansion in outlook, transferring to action); to sheet over (especially with metal); cover, overlay.
• H7848 — שִׁטָּה (shiṭṭâh, shit-taw'): feminine of a derivative (only in the plural שִׁטִּים; meaning the sticks of wood) from the same as שֹׁטֵט; the acacia (from its scourging thorns); shittah, shittim. See also בֵּית הַשִּׁטָּה.

The following Strong's numbers are referenced in the Hebrew (Westminster Leningrad Codex) text but were not explicitly tagged in the KJV source:

• H853 — אֵת (ʼêth, ayth): apparent contracted from אוֹת in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely); (as such unrepresented in English).

Cross References

Verse Cross-References (Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, Enhanced)

• staves — Numbers 4:14-15, Acts 9:15
• with gold — 1 Peter 1:7, 1 Peter 1:18-19

Reciprocal references (2): Exodus 25:13, 1 Kings 8:8

Related Topics

• Torrey’s: ARK OF THE COVENANT
• Nave’s: ARK, GOLD

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