What Does Jeremiah 52:22 Mean?
A crown of bronze was upon it, and the crown stood five cubits tall, with lattice and pomegranates all around the crown, all of bronze. The second pillar also had pomegranates like these.
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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 a chapiter of brass was upon it; and the height of one chapiter was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the chapiters round about, all of brass. The second pillar also and the pomegranates were like unto these.THE KEY
The network is the same Hebrew lattice that appears as an opening through which Ahaziah falls, so the pillar’s crown is openwork rather than a solid cap.
THE MEANING
You see a bronze capital rising five cubits above the pillar, with latticework and pomegranates circling it; the second pillar repeats the same form. Its crown is an open, patterned surface carrying pomegranate-shaped ornament around the structure.
THE ROOT
שְׂבָכָה
seḇāḵāh
GROWS FROM
שׂבך
ś-b-k
Interweave or intertwine; form an open lattice or mesh.
The word points to interlaced openwork: the same Hebrew form names the lattice around pillar capitals and a lattice opening in an upper chamber. Its concrete range keeps the ornament from reading as a solid cap; it is a permeable woven surface.
ALSO GROWS
seḇāḵîm: Latticeworks or networks.
שְׂבָכִים
This plural form names the repeated latticework around the temple pillar capitals in 1 Kings 7:17.
haśśəbāḵāh: The lattice or openwork screen.
הַשְּׂבָכָה
In 2 Kings 1:2, the same word names the upper-chamber lattice through which Ahaziah falls.
THE PATTERN
Pomegranate ornament repeatedly marks the edges of sacred clothing and the crowns of sacred pillars.
And below, on its hem, you will make pomegranates of blue, purple, and scarlet, and gold bells between them, all around.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 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.THE THREAD
And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick. And he sent messengers and said to them, Go, seek from Baalzebub the god of Ekron, whether I shall live from this sickness.The Hebrew uses the same word, שְׂבָכָה (seḇāḵāh, lattice), for the pillar’s bronze ornament and the upper-chamber lattice through which Ahaziah falls. Here it frames a crown with openwork; in Kings, the same woven boundary is an opening a body can fall through.
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