Exodus 25:4

And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
blue	וּתְכֵ֧לֶת u.te.Khe.let	H8504	the cerulean mussel · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular absolute
purple	וְאַרְגָּמָ֛ן ve.'ar.ga.Man	H713	purple (the color or the dyed stuff) · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
scarlet	וְתוֹלַ֥עַת ve.to.La.'at	H8438	the crimson-grub · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct
linen	וְשֵׁ֥שׁ ve.Shesh	H8336	bleached stuff · conjunction + noun, common masculine singular absolute
goats’	וְעִזִּֽים ve.'i.Zim	H5795	a she-goat (as strong) · conjunction + noun, common masculine plural absolute

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Cross-references

Revelation 19:8 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Genesis 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain…
Ezekiel 16:10 I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 25:1-9

We may suppose that when Moses went into the midst of the cloud, and abode there so long, where the holy angels attended the shechinah, or divine Majesty, he saw and heard very glorious things relating to the upper world, but they were things which it was not lawful nor possible to utter; and therefore, in the records he kept of the transactions there, he says nothing to satisfy the curiosity of those who would intrude into the things which they have not seen, but writes that only which he was to speak to the children of Israel. For the scripture is designed to direct us in our duty, not to fill our heads with speculations, nor to please our fancies. In these verses God tells Moses his inten…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 25:4

goats' hair--or leather of goats' skin.

Adam Clarke on Exodus 25:4

Blue - תכלת techeleth, generally supposed to mean an azure or sky color; rendered by the Septuagint ὑακινθον, and by the Vulgate hyacinthum, a sky-blue or deep violet. Purple - ארגמן argaman, a very precious color, extracted from the purpura or murex, a species of shell-fish, from which it is supposed the famous Tyrian purple came, so costly, and so much celebrated in antiquity. See this largely described, and the manner of dyeing it, in Pliny, Hist. Nat., lib. ix., c. 60-65, edit. Bipont. Scarlet - תולעת tolaath, signifies a worm, of which this colouring matter was made; and, joined with שני shani, which signifies to repeat or double, implies that to strike this color the wool or cloth was…

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John Gill on Exodus 25:4

And blue, and purple, and scarlet,.... The Jewish doctors are much divided about the sense of the words so rendered by us; some will have one colour, and some another meant; but, according to those learned men, who have taken much pains in searching into the meaning of them, as Bochart and Braunius, it appears that our version of them is most correct: and by these we are not to understand the colours themselves, which could not be brought, nor even the materials for dying them are intended; but wool, or clothes, either silken or linen of those colours: of the former the apostle has taught us to expound them, Hebrews 9:19 and so Jarchi interprets them of wool thus died, and Josephus (a) also;…

The Church Fathers

It is very necessary that when we are moved by compunction concerning ourselves, we also be zealous for the life of those entrusted to us. Therefore, let the bitterness of compunction affect us in such a way that it does not turn us away from the care of our neighbors. For what does it profit if, loving ourselves, we abandon our neighbors? Or again, what does it profit if, loving or being zealous for our neighbors, we abandon ourselves? Indeed, in the adornment of the tabernacle, twice-dyed scarlet is commanded to be offered, so that before the eyes of God our charity may be colored with love of God and neighbor. But he truly loves himself who purely loves his Creator. Therefore, the scarlet is dyed twice when the soul is inflamed with love of truth toward both itself and its neighbor.
— Gregory the Dialogist, Forty Gospel Homilies, Homily 17

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Dictionary and topics

Ark Of The Covenant — The first piece of the tabernacle’s furniture, for which precise directions were delivered. Exod 25. I. Description.— It appears to have been an oblong chest of shittim (acacia) wood, 2 1/2 cubits…
Blue — Generally associated with purple (Ex. 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36, etc.). It is supposed to have been obtained from a shellfish of the Mediterranean, the Helix ianthina of Linnaeus. The robe of the high…
Dress — (1.) Materials used. The earliest and simplest an apron of fig-leaves sewed together (Gen. 3:7); then skins of animals (3:21). Elijah’s dress was probably the skin of a sheep (2 Kings 1:8). The…
Law of Moses — Is the whole body of the Mosaic legislation (1 Kings 2:3; 2 Kings 23:25; Ezra 3:2). It is called by way of eminence simply “the Law” (Heb. Torah, Deut. 1:5; 4:8, 44; 17:18, 19; 27:3, 8). As a written…
Linen — (1.) Heb., pishet, pishtah, denotes “flax,” of which linen is made (Isa. 19:9); wrought flax, i.e., “linen cloth”, Lev. 13:47, 48, 52, 59; Deut. 22:11. Flax was early cultivated in Egypt (Ex. 9:31),…
Tabernacle — (1.) A house or dwelling-place (Job 5:24; 18:6, etc.). (2.) A portable shrine (comp. Acts 19:24) containing the image of Moloch (Amos 5:26; marg. and R.V., “Siccuth”). (3.) The human body (2 Cor.…
Taxes — First mentioned in the command (Ex. 30:11-16) that every Jew from twenty years and upward should pay an annual tax of “half a shekel for an offering to the Lord.” This enactment was faithfully…
Colors · B — B
Cotton · (R. V. margin) — (R. V. margin)
Ephod, The · For the high priest: Made of offerings of the people — For the high priest: Made of offerings of the people
Goat, The · The hair of: Offered for tabernacle

Exodus 25:4

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 25:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 25:4

Adam Clarke on Exodus 25:4

John Gill on Exodus 25:4

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 25:4

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 25:1-9

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 25:4

Adam Clarke on Exodus 25:4

John Gill on Exodus 25:4

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Exodus 25:1-22

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 25:1-9

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 25:2

Rashi on Exodus 25:4