King James Version
1 Kings 6:10 in the King James Version says “And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 6 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.”
1 Kings 6:10 · KJV
The door for the middle chamber was in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber, and out of the middle into the third. side: Heb. shoulder
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar. with: or, the vaultbeams and the panellings with cedar
And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
And the word of the LORD came to Solomon, saying,
Concerning this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt walk in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my word with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
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properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“chambers”
H3326spread, i.e., a bed; (architecture) an extension, i.e., wing or lean-to (a single story or collectively)
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“against all the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“cubits”
H520properly, a mother (i.e., unit of measure, or the fore-arm (below the elbow), i.e., a cubit; also a door-base (as a bond of the entrance)
“and they rested”
H270to seize (often with the accessory idea of holding in possession)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“against all the house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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