What Does 1 Kings 7:27 Mean?
And he made ten stands of bronze. Four forearms was the length of one stand, and four forearms its breadth, and three forearms its height.
Key words are shown with the Hebrew or Greek and what each word meant.
Selah Decoded Version The Selah Decoded Version renders what the Hebrew and Greek words meant to the people who first heard them.
King James wording
King James Version
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.THE KEY
These “bases” are named from a root of being established: the verse makes stability something prepared into a form that can carry weight.
THE MEANING
You meet support here as something deliberately formed: ten bases, each measured in length, breadth, and height. The verse makes stability tangible; what carries weight has a shape, size, and place.
THE ROOT
מְכֹנוֹת
mekhonot
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To establish, make firm, or prepare.
“stands” in this verse is mekhonot. The Hebrew word for these bases belongs to the root כון (kun), whose meanings include being firmly set and being prepared. The supports are not incidental pieces beneath the vessels: each is a prepared, established form made to carry what rests on it.
ALSO GROWS
makhon: An established place or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
This branch names a place as something set in position, echoing the bases as supports assigned a place and function.
nakhon: Firm, established, or ready.
נָכוֹן
Its sense of being established shows the stability held in the bases’ name.
hekhín: To prepare or make ready.
הֵכִין
This verb brings out the preparation inside the image: stability is formed before it carries weight.
THE PATTERN
What is established through deliberate formation can carry weight and remain steady.
The LORD reigns, he is clothed in height; the LORD is clothed in strength, and he girds himself with it. The inhabited world is also set firm, and it will not totter.Through wisdom a house is built, and through discernment it is set firm.He is like a human who built a house, dug deep, and laid the foundation on the rock. When the flood rose, the river burst against that house and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock.THE THREAD
The LORD reigns, he is clothed in height; the LORD is clothed in strength, and he girds himself with it. The inhabited world is also set firm, and it will not totter.The Hebrew verb rendered “is stablished” uses כון (kun), the same root as מְכֹנוֹת (mekhonot), “bases.” The verse expands the image from measured supports beneath vessels to the world itself: what is established can remain unmoved.
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