What Does 1 Kings 7:24 Mean in the King James?
And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The “knops” are gourds: the same Hebrew word names the basin’s ornaments and wild gourds growing in a field.
THE MEANING
The verse places two cast rows of gourd-shaped forms below the basin’s lip. The Hebrew word for these ornaments also names wild gourds elsewhere, so the crafted edge carries a form found in living growth.
THE ROOT
פְּקָעִים
peqa’im
GROWS FROM
פקע
p-q-ʿ
Gourd; here, a gourd-shaped ornament.
English “knops” makes these sound like generic knobs, while the Hebrew belongs to the word-family for gourds. The same word-family describes ornament carved into the temple and wild gourds gathered from a field.
ALSO GROWS
peqa’im: Gourd-shaped ornaments
פְּקָעִים
The same form appears among the carvings inside the house in 1 Kings 6:18.
paqqu’ot: Wild gourds
פַּקֻּעֹת
This related form names the fruit gathered from a wild vine in 2 Kings 4:39.
שְׂפָתוֹ
sephato
GROWS FROM
שפה
sh-p-h
Lip or edge; the same word also means language.
“brim” in this verse is sephato. Hebrew calls the vessel’s rim its “lip,” using the same noun that can mean language. The word gives the basin’s boundary a bodily name without making it speak.
ALSO GROWS
safah: Lip; edge or rim
שָׂפָה
This is the sense used for the basin’s brim.
safah: Language
שָׂפָה
The same noun names language, joining the meanings of lip and speech in one Hebrew word.
THE PATTERN
Sacred furnishings carry plant forms in their repeated ornament.
And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.THE THREAD
And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not.The “wild gourds” are פַּקֻּעֹת (paqqu’ot), the same word-family as the basin’s פְּקָעִים (peqa’im), its gourd-shaped ornaments. One verse names carved forms around a vessel; the other names fruit gathered from a field.
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