Fiveחֲמֵשׁcurtainsהַיְרִיעֹתshall beתִּהְיֶיןָjoinedחֹבְרֹתoneאִשָּׁהtoאֶלanother,אֲחֹתָהּand fiveוְחָמֵשׁcurtainsיְרִיעֹתjoinedחֹבְרֹתoneאִשָּׁהtoאֶלanother.אֲחֹתָהּ
Exodus 26:3
Study it in the app“Five curtains shall be joined one to another, and five curtains joined one to another.”
With the Hebrew beneath
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Exodus 26:3, word by word
- Fiveחֲמֵשׁchamesh
five
Five.
Where else “chamesh” appears- curtainsיְרִיעֹתyeriot
curtain
Curtain: a large piece of cloth or of goats' hair from which a tent is made.
Where else “yeriot” appears- shall beתִּהְיֶיןָtihyena
be
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “tihyena” appears- joinedחֹבְרֹתchovrot
join
To set two things together so that they form one.
Where else “chovrot” appears- oneאִשָּׁהisha
each
Literally "woman": all of them, taken separately.
Where else “isha” appears- anotherאֲחֹתָachota
pair
Also used to pair things, one with another, like the curtains of the sanctuary.
Where else “achota” appears
The context
2The length of each curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the width of each curtain four cubits; one measure for all the curtains.
3 · This verse (above)
4You shall make loops of blue on the edge of the one curtain at the end of the set; and likewise you shall make them on the edge of the outermost curtain in the second set.