King James Version
1 Kings 7:28 in the King James Version says “And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:” — study this verse from 1 Kings chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had borders, and the borders were between the ledges:”
1 Kings 7:28 · KJV
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:
And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“And the work”
H4639an action (good or bad); generally, a transaction; abstractly, activity; by implication, a product (specifically, a poem) or (generally) property
“and the borders”
H4526something enclosing, i.e., a margin (of a region, of a panel); concretely, a stronghold
“and the borders”
H4526something enclosing, i.e., a margin (of a region, of a panel); concretely, a stronghold
between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
“were between the ledges”
H7948a spacer or raised interval, i.e., the stile in a frame or panel
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