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1 Kings 7:31

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The opening to each stand inside the crown at the top was one cubit deep, with a round opening like the design of a pedestal, a cubit and a half wide. And around its opening were engravings, but the panels of the stands were square, not round.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the mouth of it within the capital and above was a cubit: and the mouth thereof was round after the work of a pedestal, a cubit and a half; and also upon the mouth of it were gravings, and their panels were foursquare, not round.

KJV

And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.

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Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Bede

Of the Temple of Solomon 2.20.9 · Written before 735.

The mouth of the laver was one cubit on account of the unity of confession and faith because we are all baptized in the confession of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, as the apostle says: "One Lord, one faith, one baptism, …

This site's exposition

ten movable stands of bronze

on 1 Kings 7:27-37

The ten wheeled stands are carved with “lions, oxen, and cherubim” and palm trees, and their wheels are “made like chariot wheels”. Cherubim and wheels together recall what Ezekiel later sees in motion. The washing stands of the house roll on wheels, built to move to their work.

This site's exposition

a cubit and a half wide

Albert Barnes judges the mouth and crown of the stand impossible to reconstruct with certainty. John Wesley reads a round opening set within a square frame, like a circle drawn inside a square. Bede reads the single cubit as one faith and one baptism.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

A cubit - In height, ver. 35, whereof half a cubit was above the chapiter or little base, and the other half below it. A cubit and half - In compass. Four square - So the innermost part, called the mouth, was round, but the outward part was square, as when a circle is made within a quadrangle.

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And the mouth of it within the chapiter, and above, was a cubit,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

he made ten bases of brass--These were trucks or four-wheeled carriages, for the support and conveyance of the lavers. The description of their structure shows that they were elegantly fitted up and skilfully adapted to their purpose. They stood, not on the axles, but on four rests attached to the axles, so that the figured sides were considerably raised above the wheels.

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It seems impossible to determine what is meant by the “mouth” of the laver, or what by its “chapiter.”

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וּ֠פִיהוּand opening its

    ufihuH6310 →498 times

  • מִבֵּ֨ית[was] from inside

    mibeitH1004 →2046 times

  • לַכֹּתֶ֤רֶתto the capital

    lakoteretH3805 →24 times

  • וָמַ֙עְלָה֙and up -wards

    vama'lahH4605 →140 times

  • בָּֽאַמָּ֔הby the cubit

    baamahH520 →247 times

  • וּפִ֙יהָ֙and opening its

    ufihaH6310 →498 times

  • עָגֹ֣ל[was] round

    ʾagolH5696 →6 times

  • מַעֲשֵׂה־[the] work of

    maaseh-H4639 →236 times

  • כֵ֔ןa base

    khenH3653 →

  • אַמָּ֖הa cubit

    ʾamahH520 →247 times

  • וַחֲצִ֣יand [the] half of

    vachatziH2677 →125 times

  • הָֽאַמָּ֑ה<the> cubit

    haamahH520 →247 times

  • וְגַם־and also

    vegam-H1571 →769 times

  • עַל־[were] on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פִּ֙יהָ֙opening its

    pihaH6310 →498 times

  • מִקְלָע֔וֹתcarvings

    miklaotH4734 →4 times

  • וּמִסְגְּרֹתֵיהֶ֥םand rims their

    umisgeroteihemH4526 →17 times

  • מְרֻבָּע֖וֹת[were] square

    merubaotH7251 →

  • לֹ֥אnot

    lo'H3808 →5168 times

  • עֲגֻלּֽוֹת׃round

    agulotH5696 →6 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

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About 1 Kings

The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
The visit of the Queen of Sheba to King Solomon, Sir Edward John Poynter, 1890. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Of the Temple of Solomon 2.20.9; F. W. Farrar, The First Book of Kings (Expositor's Bible); Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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