1 Kings 7:5
in 1 Kings 7All the doorways had rectangular frames, with the openings facing one another in three tiers.
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
And all the doors and posts were made square with beams: and window was over against window in three ranks.
KJV
And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.
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This verse in 1 Kings 7
Commentary
4 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
All the doors and posts - The doorways, and the posts which formed them, seem to be intended. These were square at top, not arched or rounded. In Assyrian buildings arched doorways were not uncommon. The doorways also, like the windows, exactly faced one another.
This site's exposition
the house of the forest of Lebanon
on 1 Kings 7:2-8
The state complex in order: the house of the forest of Lebanon, named for its four rows of cedar pillars and serving later as an armory (10:17), the porch of pillars, the porch of judgment where the throne sat, his own dwelling, and a house for Pharaoh's daughter. The porch of judgment makes the architecture say what 3:9 asked for, a king built to judge. The narrator notes the Egyptian wife's house without comment, and the exposition does the same.
This site's exposition
All the doorways had rectangular frames
The doorways were square at the top, where Assyrian builders often used arches, as Albert Barnes notes. Like the windows, the doorways faced one another. John Gill makes the posts and lintels square as well.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
And all the doors and posts were square with the windows,.... The doors into the several stories and apartments, and the posts and lintel of them, and the windows over them, were all square: and light was against light in three ranks; they answered one another as before.
The words behind it
11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וְכָל־ | vekhol | and all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| הַפְּתָחִ֥ים | hapetachim | the openings | H6607 → | 164 times |
| וְהַמְּזוּז֖וֹת | vehamezuzot | and the doorposts | H4201 → | 19 times |
| רְבֻעִ֣ים | revuim | [were] square | H7251 → | |
| שָׁ֑קֶף | shakef | frame-work | H8260 → | |
| וּמ֧וּל | umul | and [the] front | H4136 → | |
| מֶחֱזָ֛ה | mechezah | window | H4237 → | 4 times |
| אֶל־ | ʾel- | [was] to | H413 → | 5510 times |
| מֶחֱזָ֖ה | mechezah | window | H4237 → | 4 times |
| שָׁלֹ֥שׁ | shalosh | three | H7969 → | 432 times |
| פְּעָמִֽים׃ | peamim | times | H6471 → | 118 times |
וְכָל־and all
vekholH3605 →5413 times
הַפְּתָחִ֥יםthe openings
hapetachimH6607 →164 times
וְהַמְּזוּז֖וֹתand the doorposts
vehamezuzotH4201 →19 times
רְבֻעִ֣ים[were] square
revuimH7251 →
שָׁ֑קֶףframe-work
shakefH8260 →
וּמ֧וּלand [the] front
umulH4136 →
מֶחֱזָ֛הwindow
mechezahH4237 →4 times
אֶל־[was] to
ʾel-H413 →5510 times
מֶחֱזָ֖הwindow
mechezahH4237 →4 times
שָׁלֹ֥שׁthree
shaloshH7969 →432 times
פְּעָמִֽים׃times
peamimH6471 →118 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); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763).