King James Version
1 Kings 7:1 in the King James Version says “But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.”
1 Kings 7:1 · KJV
But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he finished all his house.
He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row. beams: Heb. ribs
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“all his house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
“and he finished”
H3615to end, whether intransitive (to cease, be finished, perish) or transitive (to complete, prepare, consume)
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all his house”
H1004a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
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