The Meaning of Exodus 35:7 Explained

Exodus 35:7

KJV: And rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

YLT: and rams' skins made red, and badgers' skins, and shittim wood,

Darby: and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers' skins, and acacia-wood,

ASV: and rams'skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia wood,

KJV Reverse Interlinear

And rams'  skins  dyed red,  and badgers'  skins,  and shittim  wood, 

What does Exodus 35:7 Mean?

Study Notes

shittim
i.e. acacia.

Context Summary

Exodus 35:1-19 - The Sabbath And Offerings To God
Very significantly this chapter commences with the reiteration of the Rest-day. Perhaps the people needed to be reminded that, amid all the din of preparation for the new Tabernacle, they were not to allow their work, however noble the object, to break in on the Sabbath-keeping of the camp. He then proceeded to enumerate the character of the gifts that were required. Those who had costly heirlooms had nothing too good; and they who could only bring the acacia wood of the desert were welcome to bring that. Women who were clever with their hands might spin the flax or weave the soft white wool of the Angora goat. A wide variety of work was offered, which reminds us of 1 Corinthians 12:4, and following. Repeatedly he urged the word "willing-hearted," and the Hebrew phrase signifies a heart driven by a holy purpose. Tennyson uses the phrase, "Whose heart drove him on like a goad." There was no crack of the taskmaster's whip. "The love of God constrained." "O love that will not let me go!" [source]

Chapter Summary: Exodus 35

1  The Sabbath
4  The free gifts for the tabernacle
20  The readiness of the people to offer
30  Bezaleel and Aholiab are called to the work

What do the individual words in Exodus 35:7 mean?

And skins ram dyed red badger and wood acacia
וְעֹרֹ֨ת אֵילִ֧ם מְאָדָּמִ֛ים תְּחָשִׁ֖ים וַעֲצֵ֥י שִׂטִּֽים‪‬

וְעֹרֹ֨ת  And  skins 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: עֹור  
Sense: skin, hide.
אֵילִ֧ם  ram 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: אַיִל 
Sense: ram.
מְאָדָּמִ֛ים  dyed  red 
Parse: Verb, Pual, Participle, masculine plural
Root: אָדֵם  
Sense: to be red, red.
תְּחָשִׁ֖ים  badger 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural
Root: תַּחַשׁ  
Sense: a kind of leather, skin, or animal hide.
וַעֲצֵ֥י  and  wood 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: עֵץ  
Sense: tree, wood, timber, stock, plank, stalk, stick, gallows.
שִׂטִּֽים‪‬  acacia 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural
Root: שִׁטָּה  
Sense: acacia tree, acacia wood.

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