1 Kings 7:38
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten bases one laver.”
כִּיּוֹר
properly, something round (as excavated or bored), i.e. a chafing-dish forcoals or a caldron forcooking; hence (from similarity of form) a washbowl; also (for the same reason) a pulpit or platform
עַל
was on
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עַל
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
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נְחֹשֶׁת
bronze
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נְחֹשֶׁת
copper, hence, something made of that metal, i.e. coin, a fetter; figuratively, base (as compared with gold or silver)
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כּוּל
it contained
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כּוּל
properly, to keep in; hence, to measure; figuratively, to maintain (in various senses)
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בַּת
baths
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בַּת
a bath or Hebrew measure (as a means of division) of liquids
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עֶשֶׂר
ten
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עֶשֶׂר
ten (as an accumulation to the extent of the digits)
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