What Does 1 Kings 7:37 Mean?
In this way he made the ten stands. All of them had one pouring, one measure, and one size.
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
After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.THE KEY
The Hebrew word for “bases” comes from a root meaning to establish, and the threefold “one” shows stability carried by a shared form.
THE MEANING
A structure can hold many parts through a form repeated consistently: each support carries the same casting, measure, and size. Unity takes physical form in ten prepared bases with one shared specification.
THE ROOT
מְכֹנוֹת
mekhonot
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To be established or set firm; to prepare.
“stands” in this verse is mekhonot. The word for these bases shares its root with words for what is prepared and firmly established. The verse repeats “one” across casting, measure, and size: each support receives the same form, making shared design part of what grounds the structure.
ALSO GROWS
makon: A fixed place, dwelling, or foundation.
מָכוֹן
The same root names a place that is established to stand or be inhabited, linking the bases to what grounds a structure.
hekin: To prepare or establish.
הֵכִין
The bases are not merely objects beneath the structure; their root carries the sense of being prepared and set in place.
nakhon: Firm, established, or prepared.
נָכוֹן
This branch echoes the stability implied by the bases and their repeated, measured form.
THE PATTERN
Many distinct supports form a coherent whole when each is made according to one established measure.
According to all that I show you, the form of the dwelling and the form of all its vessels, so you make it.In whom the whole building, joined at the joints, grows into a set-apart temple in the Lord.For as the body is one, and has many limbs, and all the limbs of the body, though many, are one body, so also is the Anointed One.THE THREAD
Alignment and judgment are the footing of your throne; faithful love and truth go before your face.The Hebrew word translated “habitation” is מְכוֹן (mekhon, fixed place or foundation), from the same root כון (kun, establish) as “bases” here. The root links the Temple’s supports with what is established beneath the throne: both name the grounding that lets a structure stand.
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