What Does 1 Kings 7:27 Mean in the King James?
And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.
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
These “bases” are named from a root of being established: the verse makes stability something prepared into a form that can carry weight.
THE MEANING
You meet support here as something deliberately formed: ten bases, each measured in length, breadth, and height. The verse makes stability tangible; what carries weight has a shape, size, and place.
THE ROOT
מְכֹנוֹת
mekhonot
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To establish, make firm, or prepare.
The Hebrew word for these bases belongs to the root כון (kun), whose meanings include being firmly set and being prepared. The supports are not incidental pieces beneath the vessels: each is a prepared, established form made to carry what rests on it.
ALSO GROWS
makhon: An established place or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
This branch names a place as something set in position, echoing the bases as supports assigned a place and function.
nakhon: Firm, established, or ready.
נָכוֹן
Its sense of being established shows the stability held in the bases’ name.
hekhín: To prepare or make ready.
הֵכִין
This verb brings out the preparation inside the image: stability is formed before it carries weight.
THE PATTERN
What is established through deliberate formation can carry weight and remain steady.
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.THE THREAD
The LORD reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the LORD is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.The Hebrew verb rendered “is stablished” uses כון (kun), the same root as מְכֹנוֹת (mekhonot), “bases.” The verse expands the image from measured supports beneath vessels to the world itself: what is established can remain unmoved.
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