What Does 1 Kings 7:31 Mean in the King James?
And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit: but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders, foursquare, not round.
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 opening remains round while the work around its mouth is squared: one structure holds two geometries at once.
THE MEANING
You are shown a single built form with two shapes: its mouth is round, while the carvings and their borders are square. The opening and the surrounding work are measured as distinct parts of one structure. The verse holds them together without making their forms identical.
THE ROOT
מְרֻבָּעוֹת
merubbaʿot
GROWS FROM
רבע
Four; fourfold, or made four-sided.
The word for “foursquare” carries the seed of four, naming a form ordered by four sides. Beside עָגֹל (ʿagol, round), it shows two distinct geometries within one structure.
ALSO GROWS
arbaʿ: Four.
אַרְבַּע
The square’s form is built on the same fourfold idea named by this number.
reviʿi: Fourth.
רְבִיעִי
This ordinal branch carries the same root of four into sequence and position.
מִסְגְּרֹתֵיהֶם
misgeroteihem
GROWS FROM
סגר
To close, shut in, or enclose.
The word translated “borders” comes from a root of enclosing. The carvings are framed work, gathered within a boundary around the opening.
ALSO GROWS
sagar: To shut or close.
סָגַר
This verb makes the enclosing sense of the root visible.
misgeret: A frame, border, or enclosure.
מִסְגֶּרֶת
This noun is the singular form of the framing word used for the borders in the verse.
THE PATTERN
Scripture treats built forms as precise relationships among openings, boundaries, and dimensions.
And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the stairs thereof, and measured the threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad; and the other threshold of the gate, which was one reed broad.And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal.THE THREAD
And thou shalt make unto it a border of an hand breadth round about, and thou shalt make a golden crown to the border thereof round about.The Hebrew word for “border” there, מִסְגֶּרֶת (misgeret, frame or enclosure), shares the root סגר (sagar, enclose) with the borders here. Both passages show the boundary as a deliberate part of the object’s design.
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