Exo 25:40 | KD | STEP | (cf. ). The Candlestick was to be made of pure gold, “beaten work.” מקשׁה: see Exo 25:18. For the form תּיעשׂה instead of תּעשׂה (which is probably the work of a copyist, who thought the reading should be תּעשׂה in the Niphal , as the י is wanting in many MSS), see Gesenius , Lehrgeb . p. 52, and Ewald , §83b. “ Of it shall be (i.e., there shall issue from it so as to form one complete whole) its ירך” (lit., the loins, the upper part of the thigh, which is attached to the body, and from which the feet proceed, - in this case the base or pedestal, upon which the candelabrum stood); its קנה, or reed, i.e., the hollow stem of the candelabrum rising up from the pedestal; - “ its גּבעים,” cups, resembling the calix of a flower; - כּפתּרים, knobs, in a spherical shape (cf. ; Zep 2:14); - “ and פּרחים,” flowers, ornaments in the form of buds just bursting.

‏ Exodus 25:40

Exo 25:31-40 (cf. Exo 37:17-24). The Candlestick was to be made of pure gold, “beaten work.” מקשׁה: see Exo 25:18. For the form תּיעשׂה instead of תּעשׂה (which is probably the work of a copyist, who thought the reading should be תּעשׂה in the Niphal, as the י is wanting in many MSS), see Gesenius, Lehrgeb. p. 52, and Ewald, §83b. “Of it shall be (i.e., there shall issue from it so as to form one complete whole) its ירך” (lit., the loins, the upper part of the thigh, which is attached to the body, and from which the feet proceed, - in this case the base or pedestal, upon which the candelabrum stood); its קנה, or reed, i.e., the hollow stem of the candelabrum rising up from the pedestal; - “its גּבעים,” cups, resembling the calix of a flower; - כּפתּרים, knobs, in a spherical shape (cf. Amo 9:1; Zep 2:14); - “and פּרחים,” flowers, ornaments in the form of buds just bursting.