Exodus 38:18
WEB
The screen for the gate of the court was the work of the embroiderer, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen. Twenty cubits was the length, and the height along the width was five cubits, like the hangings of the court.
BSB
The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,
KJV
And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
Matthew Henry
Hebrew interlinear
H4539
n-m — cover, veil
Derivation: from 5526;
a cover, i.e. veil
KJV: covering, curtain, hanging.
n.[m.] — covering
מָסָךְ n.[m.] covering, screen
H8179
n-m — opening, door, gate
Derivation: from 8176 in its original sense;
an opening, i.e. door or gate
KJV: city, door, gate, port (× -er).
n.m — gate
שַׁ֫עַר 373 n.m. gate
H2691
n-m — yard, hamlet
Derivation: (masculine and feminine); from 2690 in its original sense;
a yard (as inclosed by a fence); also a hamlet (as similarly surrounded with walls)
KJV: court, tower, village.
n.m — settled abode
[חָצֵר] 46 n.m. settled abode, settlement, village—always pl. abs. חֲצֵרִים
n.m — enclosure
חָצֵר 145 n.m. and (oftener) f. enclosure, court
H4639
n-m — action, transaction, activity, product, poem, property
Derivation: from 6213;
an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
KJV: act, art, bakemeat, business, deed, do(-ing), labor, thing made, ware of making, occupation, thing offered, operation, possession, × well, (handy-, needle-, net-) work(ing, -manship), wrought.
n.m — deed
מַעֲשֶׂה 233 n.m. deed, work
H7551
v — variegate, embroider, fabricate
Derivation: a primitive root;
to variegate color, i.e. embroider; by implication, to fabricate
KJV: embroiderer, needlework, curiously work.
vb — variegate
[רָקַם] vb. variegate
Qal as subst. variegator, worker (weaver) in colours
Pu. I was skillfully wrought
H8504
n-f — mussel, violet
Derivation: probably for 7827;
the cerulean mussel, i.e. the color (violet) obtained therefrom or stuff dyed therewith
KJV: blue.
n.f — violet
תְּכֵ֫לֶת 48 n.f. violet, i.e. violet thread and stuff
H713
n-m — purple
Derivation: of foreign origin;
purple (the color or the dyed stuff)
KJV: purple.
n.[m.] — purple
אַרְגָּמָן n.[m.] purple, red-purple, i.e. purple thread & cloth
H8438
n-m n-f — maggot, voracious, grub
Derivation: and (feminine) תּוֹלֵעָה; or תּוֹלַעַת; or תֹּלַעַת; 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: crimson, scarlet, worm.
n.[m.] — worm
תּוֹלָע n.[m.] worm, scarlet stuff
n.f — worm
תּוֹלֵעָה, תּוֹלַ֫עַת 40 n.f. worm
H8144
n-m — crimson
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
crimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with it
KJV: crimson, scarlet (thread).
n.[m.] — scarlet
שָׁנִי 42 n.[m.] scarlet (prop. coccus ilicis, which attaches itself to leaves and twigs of quercus coccifera; the dried body of female yields colouring matter)
H8336
n-m — bleached, white
Derivation: or (for alliteration with 4897) שְׁשִׁי; for 7893;
bleached stuff, i.e. white linen or (by analogy) marble
KJV: × blue, fine (twined) linen, marble, silk.
n.m — alabaster
שֵׁשׁ n.m. id. [שַׁ֫יִשׁ]; material of pavement
n.m — byssus
שֵׁשׁ n.m. byssus, fine Egyptian linen
H7806
v — twist
Derivation: a primitive root;
to twist (a thread of straw)
KJV: twine.
vb — be twisted
[שָׁזַר] 21 vb. Hoph. be twisted
H6242
n — twenty, twentieth
Derivation: from 6235;
twenty; also (ordinal) twentieth
KJV: (six-) score, twenty(-ieth).
twenty
עֶשְׂרִים (a) twenty
H520
n-f — a mother, a cubit, a door-base
Derivation: prolonged from 517;
properly, a mother (i.e. unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e. a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
KJV: cubit, + hundred (by exchange for 3967), measure, post.
n.f — ell
אַמָּה 246 n.f. ell, cubit
1. cubit
2. † measure, full measure, limit
H753
n-m — length
Derivation: from 748;
length
KJV: forever, length, long.
n.[m.] — length
אֹ֫רֶךְ 94 n.[m.] length
a. length
b. of time
c. forbearance, self-restraint
H6967
n-f — height
Derivation: from 6965;
height
KJV: × along, height, high, stature, tall.
n.f — height
קוֹמָה, קֹמָה 45 n.f. height
H7341
n-m — width
Derivation: from 7337;
width (literally or figuratively)
KJV: breadth, broad, largeness, thickness, wideness.
n.[m.] — breadth
רֹ֫חַב 101 n.[m.] breadth, width
H2568
n — five
Derivation: masculine חֲמִשָּׁה; a primitive numeral;
five
KJV: fif(-teen), fifth, five (× apiece).
n.m — five
חָמֵשׁ, חֲמִשָּׁה 342 n.m. and f. five
H5980
n-f — conjunction, society, near, beside, along with
Derivation: from 6004;
conjunction, i.e. society; mostly adverb or preposition (with prepositional prefix), near, beside, along with
KJV: (over) against, at, beside, hard by, in points.
n.f — juxtaposition
[עֻמָּה] n.f. juxtaposition, but only in st. c. with force of prep. close by, side by side with, parallel to, agreeing with, corresponding to
H7050
n-m — sling, screen, valve
Derivation: from 7049;
a sling; also a (door) screen (as if slung across), or the valve (of the door) itself
KJV: hanging, leaf, sling.
n.[m.] — curtain
[קֶ֫לַע] 15 n.[m.] curtain, hanging (P)
n.[m.] — sling
קֶ֫לַע n.[m.] sling
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Verses 9–20
Exodus 38:9–20
The walls of the court, or church-yard, were like the rest curtains or hangings, made according to the appointment, Exo 27:9, etc. This represented the state of the Old Testament church: it was a garden enclosed; the worshippers were then confined to a little compass. But the enclosure being of curtains only intimated that the confinement of the church in one particular nation was not to be perpetual. The dispensation itself was a tabernacle-dispensation, movable and mutable, and in due time to be taken down and folded up, when the place of the tent should be enlarged and its cords lengthened, to make room for the Gentile world, as is foretold, Isa 54:2, Isa 54:3. The church here on earth is but the court of God's house, and happy they that tread these courts and flourish in them; but through these courts we are passing to the holy place above. Blessed are those that dwell in that house of God: they well be still praising him. The enclosing of a court before the tabernacle teaches us a gradual approach to God. The priests that ministered must pass through the holy court, before they entered the holy house. Thus before solemn ordinances there ought to be the separated and enclosed court of a solemn preparation, in which we must wash our hands, and so draw near with a true heart.
Cross-references: Exod 27:9 · Isa 54:2 · Isa 54:3