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1 Kings 7:35

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At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And in the top of the base was there a round compass half a cubit high; and on the top of the base the stays thereof and the panels thereof were of the same.

KJV

And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.

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This verse in 1 Kings 7

Commentary

5 notes on this verse
A round compass - A circular elevation, half a cubit high, rather than a circular depression, half a cubit deep. Compare 1Ki 7:29. The “ledges” and “borders” of the top of the base were its “hands” and its “panels.” These “hands,” distinct from the “shoulders” 1Ki 7:30, were probably supports, adorned with engraved plates 1Ki 7:36, either of the elevated circle on which the laver stood, or of the lower part of the laver itself. Both panels and “hands” were “of the same,” i. e. of one piece with the base, cast at the same time.

This 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.

This site's exposition

a circular band half a cubit high

Albert Barnes reads the circular band as a raised ring, half a cubit high, on which the basin sat. John Gill takes it for the crown of verse 31. The supports and panels were cast with it as one piece.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high,.... The same with the chapiter, 1Ki 7:31 which rose up straight half a cubit, and widening upwards half a cubit more, here called the round compass of it: and on the top of the base, the ledges thereof and the borders thereof, were of the same; of the same piece of brass with the base, all being cast together.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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 words behind it

13 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.

  • וּבְרֹ֣אשׁand at [the] top of

    uveroshH7218 →599 times

  • הַמְּכוֹנָ֗הthe stand

    hamekhonahH4350 →24 times

  • חֲצִ֧י<the> half of

    chatziH2677 →125 times

  • הָאַמָּ֛ה<the> cubit

    haamahH520 →247 times

  • קוֹמָ֖הheight

    komahH6967 →45 times

  • עָגֹ֣ל׀round

    ʾagolH5696 →6 times

  • סָבִ֑יבall around

    savivH5439 →336 times

  • וְעַ֨לand [were] on

    vealH5921 →5755 times

  • רֹ֤אשׁ[the] top of

    roshH7218 →599 times

  • הַמְּכֹנָה֙the stand

    hamekhonahH4350 →24 times

  • יְדֹתֶ֔יהָhands its

    yedoteihaH3027 →1618 times

  • וּמִסְגְּרֹתֶ֖יהָand rims its

    umisgeroteihaH4526 →17 times

  • מִמֶּֽנָּה׃[were] from it

    mimenahH4480 →1188 times

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

About 1 Kings

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. 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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