What Does 1 Kings 7:35 Mean?
And at the top of the stand there was a round ring of half a forearm high, and on the top of the stand its ledges and its frames were of the same.
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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 in the top of the base was there a round compass of half a cubit high: and on the top of the base the ledges thereof and the borders thereof were of the same.THE KEY
The base, מְכוֹנָה (mekhonah), is an established support whose circular crown, ledges, and enclosing frame rise from the same structure.
THE MEANING
The base rises into a measured circular crown, and its ledges and enclosing frame belong to that same form. The verse presents firmness as a joined design: the boundary is part of the support itself.
THE ROOT
מְכוֹנָה
mekhonah
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
Be firm, be established, be prepared.
“stand” in this verse is mekhonah. The word translated “base” grows from כון (kun), the idea of being established or made ready. Its related words describe both a prepared support and a settled place, revealing this base as a made-ready station, not merely something beneath the structure.
ALSO GROWS
makon: An established place or dwelling place.
מָכוֹן
This branch links the base’s stability with the idea of a place made ready to stand.
hekin: To prepare or set in place.
הֵכִין
This branch brings preparation into the word for the support: the base is a formed, established part of the structure.
מִסְגְּרֹת
misgerot
GROWS FROM
סגר
sagar
Shut, close, enclose.
The word rendered “borders” belongs to סגר (sagar), the movement of closing or enclosing; a related noun means frame or enclosure. The Hebrew word carries the sense of a frame that gives the form its bounds, while the verse says these frames come from the same structure as the base.
ALSO GROWS
sagar: To shut or close.
סָגַר
This verb shows the enclosing action held within the word family behind the frame.
misgeret: A frame or enclosure.
מִסְגֶּרֶת
This related noun makes the border’s structural role visible: it frames and encloses the form.
קוֹמָה
qomah
GROWS FROM
קום
qum
Rise, stand.
The measured “height” comes from קום (qum), the root of rising or standing. The dimension describes how the support stands upward, joining its measured elevation to the idea of a stable place.
ALSO GROWS
qum: To rise or stand.
קוּם
This is the root action beneath the measured height: the structure rises into its form.
maqom: A place or standing place.
מָקוֹם
This branch connects standing with place, echoing the base as an established support.
THE PATTERN
A structure holds together through a prepared design in which its parts meet as one.
And see that you make them according to their form, which was shown to you on the mountain.Through wisdom a house is built, and through discernment it is set firm.In whom the whole building, joined at the joints, grows into a set-apart temple in the Lord.THE THREAD
Through wisdom a house is built, and through discernment it is set firm.The word “base” here and “established” in Proverbs share the root כון (kun), meaning to be firm or established. Proverbs names understanding as what establishes a house; this stand gives that same root a visible form in a measured base and frame.
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