What Does 1 Kings 7:34 Mean in the King James?
And there were four undersetters to the four corners of one base: and the undersetters were of the very base itself.
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 base’s supports are not attached afterward; the verse calls them its own shoulders.
THE MEANING
Each corner’s shoulder belongs to the base itself. Stability comes from the shape of the structure, with its supports formed as part of what they hold up.
THE ROOT
כְּתֵפוֹת
ketefot
GROWS FROM
כ־ת־ף
K-T-P
Shoulder; also a side or flank.
The word translated “undersetters” literally means “shoulders.” The verse gives the base a body-like bearing structure, then says those shoulders belong to the base itself.
ALSO GROWS
ketef: Shoulder, the part that bears a load.
כָּתֵף
This is the singular form behind “undersetters”: the base’s supports are pictured as shoulders that carry weight.
ketef: Side or flank.
כָּתֵף
The same word can describe a side or edge, fitting supports set at the base’s four corners.
הַמְּכֹנָה
ha-mekhonah
GROWS FROM
כּוּן
K-W-N
To be firm or established; to set in place.
The word for “base” grows from a root of being set firm and established. Alongside the base’s own shoulders, it presents stability as something built into the structure’s form.
ALSO GROWS
kun: To establish, prepare, or set firm.
כּוּן
This verbal form names the action behind the base’s established place.
makon: A fixed place or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
This related noun carries the sense of a place made firm, extending the base’s meaning beyond a mere platform.
nakhon: Firm, established, or prepared.
נָכוֹן
This related form shows how the same root describes something made ready to stand.
THE PATTERN
A structure stands when its stability is built into its foundation and its supporting edges.
The stone which the builders refused is become the head stone of the corner.Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone;THE THREAD
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.“Base,” מְכוֹנָה (mekhonah, a stand or base), and “shall be established,” נָכוֹן (nakhon, firm or established), share the root כּוּן (K-W-N), to be firm or set in place. The connection carries the verse’s small image of a steady base into the image of a dwelling made firm.
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