Exodus 40:20
Old Testament • 12 words with Strong's data
"And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:"
Word-by-Word Analysis
לָקַח
lâqach
to take (in the widest variety of applications)
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
שׂוּם
sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
בַּד
bad
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of atree, bar forcarrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositio...
נָתַן
nâthan
to give, used with greatest latitude of application (put, make, etc.)
חֵסֵד
chêçêd
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
כַּפֹּרֶת
kappôreth
a lid (used only of the cover of the sacred Ark)
מַעַל
maʻal
properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.
Key Terms in This Verse
בַּד bad
properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of atree, bar forcarrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides
Study H905 →מַעַל maʻal
properly, the upper part, used only adverbially with prefix upward, above, overhead, from the top, etc.
Study H4605 →חֵסֵד chêçêd
kindness; by implication (towards God) piety; rarely (by opposition) reproof, or (subject.) beauty
Study H2617 →שׂוּם sûwm
to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
Study H7760 →Cross References
As the LORD commanded Moses, so Aaron laid it up before the Testimony, to be kept.
For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Which had the golden censer, and the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, wherein was the golden pot that had manna, and Aaron’s rod that budded, and the tables of the covenant;
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
And I turned myself and came down from the mount, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they be, as the LORD commanded me.
And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone, which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
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