King James Version
Exodus 37:11 in the King James Version says “And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 37 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.”
Exodus 37:11 · KJV
And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another; even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.
And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof:
And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.
Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings upon the four corners that were in the four feet thereof.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“gold”
H2091gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e., yellow), as oil, a clear sky
“thereunto a crown”
H2213a chaplet (as spread around the top), i.e., (specifically) a border moulding
“gold”
H2091gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e., yellow), as oil, a clear sky
“round about”
H5439(as noun) a circle, neighbour, or environs; but chiefly (as adverb, with or without preposition) around
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