What Does 1 Kings 7:43 Mean in the King James?
And the ten bases, and ten lavers on the bases;
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
Cleansing is never free-floating here: every laver rests on a base prepared to hold it.
THE MEANING
Each vessel stands on a prepared support, making the structure beneath the washing visible. The image presents cleansing as something held within an ordered design.
THE ROOT
מְכֹנוֹת
mekhonot
GROWS FROM
כון
kun
To be firm or established; to set something in place.
מְכֹנוֹת (mekhonot, bases) grows from כון (kun, to be established). The word carries more than the idea of a support: it brings in the idea of making a place ready to hold what rests upon it.
ALSO GROWS
kun: To be firm, established, or made ready.
כּוּן
The base is connected to the act of establishing: each laver has a place prepared beneath it.
makon: An established place, foundation, or dwelling.
מָכוֹן
This branch shows how the root can name not only a support, but a place made firm enough to serve as a dwelling.
mekhonah: A stand or base.
מְכוֹנָה
This is the singular form behind the verse’s bases, keeping the vessel and its support in the same word family.
THE PATTERN
Cleansing is made present through water held ready in a designated vessel.
Thou shalt also make a laver of brass, and his foot also of brass, to wash withal: and thou shalt put it between the tabernacle of the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.THE THREAD
Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face.The word translated “habitation” is מָכוֹן (makon, established place), from the same root כון (kun, to be established) as מְכֹנוֹת (mekhonot, bases). The verse’s base belongs to the same word family as a place made firm enough to be a dwelling.
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