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1 Kings 7:34

in 1 Kings 7

Each stand had four handles, one for each corner, projecting from the stand.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And there were four undersetters at the four corners of each base: the undersetters thereof were of the base itself.

KJV

And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.

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This verse in 1 Kings 7

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

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

four handles, one for each corner

These handles at the corners are the same supports named in verse 30, as John Gill reads them. Albert Barnes and Gill note that they were cast with the stand, which made them stronger to bear the basin. Each basin held forty baths.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base,.... Or pillars, as in 1Ki 7:30. and the undersetters were of the base itself; they were cast together, and of the same piece of metal with it.

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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The undersetters were cast with the base, not afterward attached to it, and were therefore stronger and better able to support the laver.

The words behind it

10 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.

  • וְאַרְבַּ֣עand four

    vearba'H702 →318 times

  • כְּתֵפ֔וֹתsupports

    ketefotH3802 →67 times

  • אֶ֚ל[were] to

    ʾelH413 →5510 times

  • אַרְבַּ֣ע[the] four

    ʾarba'H702 →318 times

  • פִּנּ֔וֹת[the] corners of

    pinotH6438 →

  • הַמְּכֹנָ֖הthe stand

    hamekhonahH4350 →24 times

  • הָֽאֶחָ֑ת<the> one

    haechatH259 →971 times

  • מִן־[were] from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַמְּכֹנָ֖הthe stand

    hamekhonahH4350 →24 times

  • כְּתֵפֶֽיהָ׃supports its

    ketefeihaH3802 →67 times

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

Where this verse is studied

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.
1 Kings: the study guide →Read 1 Kings 7 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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) and Keil, The Books of the Kings.

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