1 Kings 7:34
in 1 Kings 7Each 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
4 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
ten bases of brass
on 1 Kings 7:27-37
Ten wheeled stands, each carved with lions, oxen, cherubims and palm trees, their wheels made like the work of a chariot wheel, all of them one casting, one measure, and one size. Cherubim, wheels and living faces together read like a first sketch of what Ezekiel later sees in motion, a likeness the commentators draw and the page marks as theirs. The washing apparatus of the house rolls; cleansing in this architecture is designed to move to its work.
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 & Brown1802–1910
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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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
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 wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְאַרְבַּ֣ע | vearba' | and four | H702 → | 318 times |
| כְּתֵפ֔וֹת | ketefot | supports | H3802 → | 67 times |
| אֶ֚ל | ʾel | [were] to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| אַרְבַּ֣ע | ʾarba' | [the] four | H702 → | 318 times |
| פִּנּ֔וֹת | pinot | [the] corners of | H6438 → | |
| הַמְּכֹנָ֖ה | hamekhonah | the stand | H4350 → | 24 times |
| הָֽאֶחָ֑ת | haechat | <the> one | H259 → | 971 times |
| מִן־ | min- | [were] from | H4480 → | 1188 times |
| הַמְּכֹנָ֖ה | hamekhonah | the stand | H4350 → | 24 times |
| כְּתֵפֶֽיהָ׃ | ketefeiha | supports its | H3802 → | 67 times |
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.
About 1 Kings
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.