What Does 2 Chronicles 4:13 Mean?
And four hundred pomegranates for the two woven nets; two rows of pomegranates for each woven net, to cover the two bowls of the crowns that were upon the pillars.
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 four hundred pomegranates on the two wreaths; two rows of pomegranates on each wreath, to cover the two pommels of the chapiters which were upon the pillars.THE KEY
The covering is itself measured ornament: four hundred pomegranates form two ordered rows over the pillars’ crowns.
THE MEANING
For you, the verse makes the finish visible: four hundred pomegranates sit in two rows on each wreath, covering the capitals of the pillars. Their count and placement make beauty part of the completed design.
THE ROOT
לְכַסּוֹת
lĕkassōṯ
GROWS FROM
כסה
kāsāh: to cover, conceal, or cover over
The verb לְכַסּוֹת (lĕkassōṯ, to cover) comes from כָּסָה (kāsāh, to cover). The root keeps the action concrete: the pomegranates cover the capitals, just as the same Hebrew root describes a cloud covering a mountain.
ALSO GROWS
kissāh: he covered
כִּסָּה
This verb form shares the root כסה (kāsāh, to cover) and names the completed act that the pomegranate rows perform.
mekhasseh: covering; one who covers
מְכַסֶּה
This participle keeps the same root consonants and names the one or thing doing the covering.
THE PATTERN
Sacred ornament takes shape through repeated forms placed around hems, networks, and capitals.
And he made the pillars, and two rows round about upon the one netting, to cover the crowns that were upon the top, with pomegranates. And so he did for the other crown.And below, on its hem, you will make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet, and gold bells between them, all around.THE THREAD
And Moses went up into the mountain, and a cloud covered the mountain.Exodus 24:15 uses the same root, כסה (kāsāh, to cover), when a cloud covers the mountain. The shared verb places the crafted covering of the pillar capitals beside a cloud’s covering of a mountain.
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