Exodus 27 · Verse 17

Exodus 27:17

All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
Exodus 27:17, King James Version

Exodus 27:17 in other translations

BSBAll the posts around the courtyard shall have silver bands, silver hooks, and bronze bases.
WEBAll the pillars of the court around shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of bronze.
ASVAll the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.
YLTAll the pillars of the court round about are filleted with silver, their pegs are silver, and their sockets brass.
DARBYAll the pillars of the court round about shall be fastened together with rods of silver; their hooks of silver, and their bases of copper.
BBEAll the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.
WebsterAll the pillars around the court shall be filleted with silver: their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

What does Exodus 27:17 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 27:9-19

9-19. the court of the tabernacle--The enclosure in which the edifice stood was a rectangular court, extending rather more than fifty yards in length and half that space in breadth, and the enclosing parapet was about three yards or half the height of the tabernacle. That parapet consisted of a connected series of curtains, made of fine twined linen yarn, woven into a kind of network, so that the people could see…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 27:9-19

The tabernacle was enclosed in a court, about sixty yards long and thirty broad, formed by curtains hung upon brazen pillars, fixed in brazen sockets. Within this enclosure the priests and Levites offered the sacrifices, and thither the Jewish people were admitted. These distinctions represented the difference between the visible nominal church, and the true spiritual church, which alone has access to God, and…

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Exodus 27:17 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כָּל\־kol-allH3605
עַמּוּדֵ֨י'a.mu.Dei[the] pillars ofH5982
הֶֽחָצֵ֤רhe.cha.Tzerthe courtyardH2691
סָבִיב֙sa.Vivall aroundH5439
מְחֻשָּׁקִ֣יםme.chu.sha.Kim[will be] furnished with bandsH2836
כֶּ֔סֶףKe.sefsilverH3701
וָוֵיהֶ֖םva.vei.Hemhooks theirH2053
כָּ֑סֶףKa.sef[will be] silverH3701
וְאַדְנֵיהֶ֖םve.'ad.nei.Hemand bases theirH134
נְחֹֽשֶׁת\׃ne.Cho.shet[will be] bronzeH5178

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

  • Exodus 27:16

    And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.

  • Exodus 27:17

    All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.

  • Exodus 27:18

    The length of the court shall be an hundred cubits, and the breadth fifty every where, and the height five cubits of fine twined linen, and their sockets of brass.

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Exodus 27:17 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Todas las columnas del atrio en derredor serán ceñidas de plata; sus capiteles de plata, y sus basas de metal.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Tous les piliers du parvis, à l’entour, auront des baguettes d’attache en argent, leurs crochets, d’argent, et leurs bases, d’airain.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Alle Säulen des Vorhofs ringsum sollen mit Bindestäben von Silber versehen sein, ihre Haken von Silber und ihre Füße von Erz.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Omnes columnæ atrii per circuitum vestitæ erunt argenteis laminis, capitibus argenteis, et basibus æneis.