What Does 2 Chronicles 4:14 Mean?
He made also stands, and made basins upon the stands;
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
He made also bases, and lavers made he upon the bases;THE KEY
The cleansing vessels do not stand alone: what washes is carried by what has been made firm.
THE MEANING
The verse places cleansing within a structure: the basins rest on supports made to bear them. What cleanses has a stable place in which to function, so the foundation beneath the act belongs to the act itself.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
It loosens the belief that cleansing is a free-floating moment; what washes is held by a foundation beneath it.
THE ROOT
מְכֹנוֹת
mekhonot
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To be firm, established, or prepared.
The word translated “bases” comes from כון (kun), a root of firmness and preparation: these supports are things set in place to bear what rests above them. The same root-family holds both a fixed place and the act of making something ready, joining support with readiness.
ALSO GROWS
mākôn: A fixed place, dwelling, or foundation.
מָכוֹן
The basins rest on a prepared place; this branch makes the base a place that holds what it serves.
hēkhîn: To prepare or make ready.
הֵכִין
The base is not incidental: it is prepared to bear the laver above it.
nākôn: Firm, established, or ready.
נָכוֹן
This branch carries the quality the supports provide: steadiness for the vessels they hold.
THE PATTERN
What a work can do depends on the foundation that holds it.
You shall also make a basin of bronze, and its stand also of bronze, for washing; and you shall set it between the tent of meeting and the altar, and you shall set waters in it.Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock.For no one can set another foundation beside the one lying there, which is Jesus, the Anointed One.THE THREAD
The LORD by wisdom founded the earth, and by understanding set the heavens firm.The root כון (kun, “be firm, establish”) behind “bases” appears again in כוֹנֵן (kōnēn, “established”) in Proverbs. Here that firmness is physical: the basins rest on supports; there, the heavens themselves are established.
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