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Exodus 27:16 KJV
Exodus · chapter 27 · verse 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 27:16 · King James Version
Exodus 27:16 in context
14The hangings of one side of the gate shall be fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
15And on the other side shall be hangings fifteen cubits: their pillars three, and their sockets three.
16And 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.
17All the pillars round about the court shall be filleted with silver; their hooks shall be of silver, and their sockets of brass.
18The 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- hangingmâçâka coverH4539 →
- scarletshânîycrimson, properly, the insect or its color, also stuff dyed with itH8144 →
- scarlettôwlâʻthe crimson-grub, but used only of the colorfrom it, and cloths dyed therewithH8438 →
- twentyʻesrîymtwentyH6242 →
- cubitsʼammâhproperly, a motherH520 →
- purpleʼargâmânpurpleH713 →
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Before the tabernacle there was to be a court or yard, enclosed with hangings of the finest linen that was used for tents. This court, according to the common computation of cubits, was fifty yards long, and twenty-five broad.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-19