King James Version
Exodus 37:22 in the King James Version says “Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 37 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.”
Exodus 37:22 · KJV
And in the candlestick were four bowls made like almonds, his knops, and his flowers:
And a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches going out of it.
Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it was one beaten work of pure gold.
And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his snuffdishes, of pure gold.
Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.
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“Their knops”
H3730a chaplet; but used only in an architectonic sense, i.e., the capital of a column, or a wreath-like button or disk on the candelabrum
“and their branches”
H7070a reed (as erect); by resemblance a rod (especially for measuring), shaft, tube, stem, the radius (of the arm), beam (of a steelyard)
to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“were of the same all of it was one”
H259properly, united, i.e., one; or (as an ordinal) first
“gold”
H2091gold, figuratively, something gold-colored (i.e., yellow), as oil, a clear sky
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