King James Version
1 Kings 7:22 in the King James Version says “And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.”
1 Kings 7:22 · KJV
And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.
And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof Jachin: and he set up the left pillar, and called the name thereof Boaz. Jachin: that is, He shall establish Boaz: that is, In it is strength
And upon the top of the pillars was lily work: so was the work of the pillars finished.
And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about. from: Heb. from his brim to his brim
And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
KJV Study — Public Domain
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“And upon the top”
H7218the head (as most easily shaken), whether literal or figurative (in many applications, of place, time, rank, itc.)
“work”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
“was lily”
H7799a lily (from its whiteness), as a flower of architectural ornament; also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape)
“finished”
H8552to complete, in a good or a bad sense, literal, or figurative, transitive or intransitive
“so was the work”
H4399properly, deputyship, i.e., ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
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