Exodus 39:37

Summary

This verse lists items brought as part of the tabernacle's furnishings inventory: the pure lampstand, its lamps arranged in a row, all its accessory vessels, and the oil for the light. The sentence consists of four direct objects joined by conjunction, each marked with the object marker 'et (H0853).

Key words

• me.no.Rah ("lampstand", H4501) — feminine singular noun, the head object of the clause, further specified by the following adjective.
• te.ho.Rah ("pure", H2889) — feminine singular adjective agreeing with me.no.Rah, describing the material or ritual quality of the lampstand.
• ne.ro.Tei.ha ("her lamps", H5216A) — construct plural noun with 3rd person feminine singular suffix ha (H9024), meaning "its lamps," referring back to the lampstand.
• ma.'a.ra.Khah ("row", H4634) — singular noun in construct relation with the preceding ne.Rot ("lamps of"), forming the phrase "lamps of the row," i.e., the lamps arranged in sequence.
• ma.'or ("light", H3974) — singular noun following She.men ("oil of", H8081) in a construct chain, producing "oil of the light."

What the text says

The verse is built as a list of four items, each introduced by the direct object marker 'et (H0853), which has no independent meaning but signals that a definite direct object follows — presumably governed by a verb in a preceding verse (not present here) such as "they brought" or "they made."

The first item is ha-me.no.Rah ha-te.ho.Rah ("the pure lampstand"), where the adjective te.ho.Rah (H2889) follows and agrees in gender and number with the noun, both carrying the definite article ha (H9009). The second item, ne.ro.Tei.ha ne.Rot ha-ma.'a.ra.Khah, is a double construct construction: ne.ro.Tei.ha ("its lamps") is itself further defined by ne.Rot ha-ma.'a.ra.Khah ("lamps of the row"), producing a layered phrase that specifies the lamps as those arranged in a row. The suffix ha (H9024) on ne.ro.Tei.ha points back to the lampstand mentioned first.

The third item, kol-ke.Lei.ha ("all its vessels/articles", H3605 + H3627 + H9024), again uses a construct chain with the same feminine suffix, tying these vessels back to the lampstand. The fourth item, She.men ha-ma.'or ("oil of the light"), is a construct phrase linking the noun for "oil" (H8081) to "light" (H3974) with the definite article on the second noun, a typical construct pattern where definiteness is marked on the final element of the chain.

Differences between versions

The Vulgate text supplied (altare aureum, et unguentum, et thymiama ex aromatibus — "the golden altar, and ointment, and incense of spices") does not correspond to the Hebrew content of this verse, which concerns the lampstand, its lamps, vessels, and oil. The Hebrew, BSB, RV1909, and SBLIBRE align in listing the lampstand and related items, differing mainly in how they render the construct chains (e.g., "lamps ready for lighting" in SBLIBRE versus "row of lamps" in BSB) to represent ne.Rot ha-ma.'a.ra.Khah ("lamps of the row").