King James Version
1 Kings 7:26 in the King James Version says “And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it co...” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.”
1 Kings 7:26 · KJV
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.
It stood upon twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east: and the sea was set above upon them, and all their hinder parts were inward.
And it was an hand breadth thick, and the brim thereof was wrought like the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies: it contained two thousand baths.
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And it was an hand breadth”
H2947a spread of the hand, i.e., a palm-breadth (not 'span' of the fingers); architecturally, a corbel (as a supporting palm)
“and the brim”
H8193the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
“thereof was wrought”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
“and the brim”
H8193the lip (as a natural boundary); by implication, language; by analogy, a margin (of a vessel, water, cloth, etc.)
“of a cup”
H3563a cup (as a container), often figuratively, some unclean bird, probably an owl (perhaps from the cup-like cavity of its eye)
“of lilies”
H7799a lily (from its whiteness), as a flower of architectural ornament; also a (straight) trumpet (from the tubular shape)
“two thousand”
H505hence (the ox's head being the first letter of the alphabet, and this eventually used as a numeral) a thousand
“it contained”
H3557properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
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