What Does 1 Kings 7:30 Mean in the King James?
And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
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 basin’s supports are called “shoulders,” making stability a load-bearing form built into what moves.
THE MEANING
A basin rests on a wheeled bronze base, held by cast supports beneath it. Its weight and its movement belong together: the support is built into the structure that carries it.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The verse loosens the assumption that something must be fixed in place to be supported: this basin travels on wheels because its weight is carried by supports built into the base.
THE ROOT
כְּתֵפֹת
ketefot
GROWS FROM
כתף
k-t-p
Shoulder: the load-bearing side of the body.
The word translated “undersetters” is literally “shoulders.” English hides the bodily image: the basin is steadied by supports whose name carries the sense of bearing weight.
ALSO GROWS
shoulder: The body’s load-bearing side.
כָּתֵף
The cast supports beneath the basin bear its weight, like a shoulder beneath a load.
shoulder-pieces: Shoulder supports on a garment.
כְּתֵפֹת
The same word names the ephod’s shoulder-pieces, connecting built support with the body’s own bearing form.
מְכוֹנָה
mekhonah
GROWS FROM
כון
k-w-n
To be firm or established; to set in place.
The word for the base grows from the language of being established, yet this base is mounted on wheels. The verse holds steadiness and movement together in one structure.
ALSO GROWS
establish: To set firm or establish.
כּוּן
This verb is the seed beneath the word for base: the fixture steadies what it carries.
place: An established place or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
The base and the place share the language of establishment, even as this base is designed to move.
THE PATTERN
A structure carries weight through supports fitted to its load, whether it sits, moves, or grows.
But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.THE THREAD
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.The supports beneath the basin are כְּתֵפֹת (ketefot, “shoulders”), the same Hebrew word used here for the ephod’s shoulder-pieces. One structure bears a basin; the other bears names, and in both, the shoulder is the form that carries weight.
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