Teks -- Exodus 25:5 (NET)

25:5 ram skins dyed red, fine leather, acacia wood,

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Exo 25:5 - Shittim

wood - A kind of wood growing in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia, very durable and precious.

JFB: Exo 25:5 - badgers' skins

The badger was an unclean animal, and is not a native of the East--rather some kind of fish, of the leather of which sandals are made in the East. [See on Exo 39:34 and Eze 16:10.]

JFB: Exo 25:5 - shittim wood

Or Shittah (Isa 41:19), the acacia, a shrub which grows plentifully in the deserts of Arabia, yielding a light, strong, and beautiful wood, in long planks.

Clarke: Exo 25:5 - Rams’ skins dyed red

Rams’ skins dyed red - ערת אילם מאדמים oroth eylim meoddamim , literally, the skins of red rams. It is a fact attested by many respectable travelers, that in the Levant sheep are often to be met with that have red or violet-coloured fleeces. And almost all ancient writers speak of the same thing. Homer describes the rams of Polyphemus as having a violet-coloured fleece

Αρσενες οΐες ησαν εΰτρεφεες, δασυμαλλοι

Καλοι τε, μεγαλοι τε, ιοδνεφες ειρος εχοντες

Odyss., lib. ix., ver. 425

"Strong were the rams, with native purple fair

Well fed, and largest of the fleecy care.

Pope

Pliny, Aristotle, and others mention the same. And from facts of this kind it is very probable that the fable of the golden fleece had its origin. In the Zetland Isles I have seen sheep with variously coloured fleeces, some white, some black, some black and white, some of a very fine chocolate color. Beholding those animals brought to my recollection those words of Virgil

- Ipse sed in pratis Aries jam suave rubent

Murice, jam croceo mutabit vellera luto

Eclog. iv., ver. 43

"No wool shall in dissembled colors shine

But the luxurious father of the fold

With native purple or unborrow’ d gold

Beneath his pompous fleece shall proudly sweat

And under Tyrian robes the lamb shall bleat.

Dryden

Badgers’ skins - ערת תחשים oroth techashim . Few terms have afforded greater perplexity to critics and commentators than this. Bochart has exhausted the subject, and seems to have proved that no kind of animal is here intended, but a color. None of the ancient versions acknowledge an animal of any kind except the Chaldee, which seems to think the badger is intended, and from it we have borrowed our translation of the word. The Septuagint and Vulgate have skins dyed a violet color; the Syriac, azure; the Arabic, black; the Coptic, violet; the modern Persic, ram-skins, etc. The color contended for by Bochart is the hysginus, which is a very deep blue. So Pliny, Coccoque tinctum Tyrio tingere, ut fieret hysginum . "They dip crimson in purple to make the color called hysginus."- Hist. Nat., lib. ix., c. 65, edit. Bipont

Clarke: Exo 25:5 - Shittim wood

Shittim wood - By some supposed to be the finest species of the cedar; by others, the acacia Nilotica , a species of thorn, solid, light, and very beautiful. This acacia is known to have been plentiful in Egypt, and it abounds in Arabia Deserta, the very place in which Moses was when he built the tabernacle; and hence it is reasonable to suppose that he built it of that wood, which was every way proper for his purpose.

TSK: Exo 25:5 - shittim wood

Exo 26:14

shittim wood : Exo 26:15, Exo 26:26, Exo 26:37, Exo 27:1, Exo 36:20

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Exo 25:5

A kind of wood growing in Egypt and the deserts of Arabia, very durable and precious. See Exo 35:24 Num 33:49 Isa 41:19 Joe 3:18 .

Haydock: Exo 25:5 - Setim-wood

Setim-wood. The wood of a tree that grows in the wilderness, which is said to be incorruptible, (Challoner) as the Septuagint intimate. It is perhaps the Acacia, which is very black and hard. St. Jerome in Joel iii. 18, says it resembles our white thorn.

Gill: Exo 25:5 - And rams' skins died red // and badgers' skins // shittim wood

And rams' skins died red,.... Of these were made a covering for the tent or tabernacle:

and badgers' skins, which were for the same use: the Septuagint version calls them hyacinth or blue skins; according to which, they seem to be the rams' skins died blue; and so Josephus ^b seems to have understood it; and it is much questionable whether the same creature is meant we call the badger, since that with the Israelites was an unclean creature; nor is its skin made use of for shoes, or well could be, as the skin of this creature is said to be, Eze 16:10. Jarchi says it was a kind of beast only at that time; and Aben Ezra says, it was known in those days but not now: and

shittim wood; supposed by the Jewish writers, as Kimchi ^c, and Ben Melech from him, to be the best and most excellent kind of cedar: Aben Ezra conjectures, and he delivers it but as a conjecture, that there might be near Mount Sinai a forest of "shittim" trees; and while the Israelites were there they cut them down for booths, which they might carry with them when they removed from thence; for, he says, Moses did not speak of the tabernacle till after the day of atonement: and since Acacia is by much the largest and the most common tree of the deserts of Arabia, as Dr. Shaw ^d observes, he thinks there some reason to conjecture, that the "shittim wood", whereof the several utensils of the tabernacle, &c. were made, was the wood of Acacia: and long ago it was the opinion of Cordus ^e that the "shittim wood" was the Acacia of Dioscorides; and it is the same with the Senton or Santon of the Arabians, which is the Egyptian thorn that grows in the wilderness, of which Herodotus ^f says, they cut wood of two cubits out of and make ships of burden of it: this is said to grow in the parts of Egypt at a distance from the sea; in the mountains of Sinai, at the Red sea, about Suez, in the barren wilderness; which circumstances seem to determine it to be the "shittim wood" ^g: some places where it might grow in plenty seem to have had their names from it, see Num 25:1.